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    "id": 697458,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ogolla",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Gideon Ochanda Ogolla",
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    "content": "I had a very funny experience one time when we were experimenting rice growing in some parts of my constituency. Unfortunately, I was told that the best people who do manual planting are children. You do not know how to separate between what we call child labour and the community economies we are talking about. I was really surprised but apparently, that was the thing. Definitely, I could not engage children in coming to plant rice for purposes of that experiment, but I learnt that children are the best labour when it comes to planting rice. It is very unfortunate. How do we reconcile all these things in terms of community economies in the name of taking children to learn how their economies work and the issue of child labour? The whole issue of rehabilitating somebody who had been engaged in child labour and now you want to get them out becomes a problem if the Government does not have a very clear way of doing this. That is similar to child-headed homes and families. We are giving support that helps some adults who are handling or have children that are not theirs. They are supported by the Government. When it comes to child-headed homes, there is no support completely. That data is with us. There must be deliberate arrangements to identify the children-headed homes and get the children who are heading them. The Government should put in place proactive engagements for purposes of making sure that child-headed families are supported. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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