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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kubai Iringo",
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        "legal_name": "Cyprian Kubai Iringo",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Motion. First and foremost, let me thank the Mover of the Motion for coming up with this idea of having chaplains in our schools. As I support this Motion, we should reflect back and see the evils being brought to bear in our children when they are in school, especially this time when we have a lot of radicalization and some few elements infiltrating our schools and spoiling our children. Our children in school, especially secondary schools, are in their adolescent ages when there are a lot of challenges. They seem to like to explore anything which comes in their way because it is the nature of their bodies. They try and taste anything like any other young growing person would do. We have to be very careful not to let them get lost especially in the hands of those people who are out to misuse them. Even if students take bhang, they are just experimenting. When they practise evil things or whatever they do out there, they are just doing experiments. We require people of integrity to be with those children all the time so that they can be counseled, and detect when a student has those traits of going out of the way. Once the student has reported to school, it becomes very hard for the principal and other teachers to follow each and every student wherever he or she is. But if we have a chaplain in the school--- They should even be housed in one of the dorms so that they can always monitor the students, see their behaviour and try to arrest the situation early enough before it gets out of hand. Last time, we had incidences of many schools being torched by students until it became like a wave, which even the Ministry itself, was finding difficult to contain. We as leaders have had the same experience. Like in my constituency, students burnt around eight schools within a period of two months. It became a wave. If you asked those children, some of them were saying: “Let us do it because the other school has done it.” It was not because of any other reason; just that! If they had somebody who could check on their behaviour and what they are doing, we could have saved those millions of shillings which went into flames and the agony of parents going to buy all the items again. The young person or girl is there looking at the parent struggling to get another box, blanket, other clothes and other things."
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