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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Ghati",
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        "legal_name": "Dennitah Ghati",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for the opportunity to contribute. I wish to support the Motion about deploying chaplains to learning institutions. Personally, I grew up in a very strict Catholic environment both at home and school. I happened to be in a boarding school from Standard Three. We had good character instilled in us from a very early age. This is a very timely Motion because you can see what is happening in our country. Our young people and more so students in schools are becoming unruly. Good character should be instilled in them. As parents, we have become too busy for our children. We are increasingly leaving our responsibility as parents to teachers, the media, house girls or anybody who can listen to our children. We have a problem as parents because we have left our responsibilities of raising our children to third parties. That is why it is important that we have such mechanisms in place. Chaplains play a big role in instilling good behaviour and good character in our children, which we have absconded as parents. We are too busy chasing careers and other things and so we do not have time for our children. Kenyan parents do not even sit down with their children to talk about issues such as reproductive health. Parents do not talk about sexuality with their children; they do not talk about many things. We leave other people to mould our children and yet we keep complaining. This Motion, therefore, is coming at the right time. Look at what is happening in this country. There is burning of schools everywhere. Every day we wake up to news that schools are The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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