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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Prof.) Oduol",
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        "legal_name": "Jacquiline Adhiambo Oduol",
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    "content": "out - which is very timely - I hope there will be room and opportunity for us to call on our indigenous knowledge and truly benefit from the kinds of circumstances that some would call ‘witchcraft’, but which seemed to have worked before. I hope we will also benefit from the spiritual engagements that those of us who are of faith engage in. As I conclude, I want to remind Members that when we talk about mental health, we might want to think that it affects only those people who are outside, namely, the mad people we perhaps see in marketplaces and in mental hospitals. However, looking at the incidents that took place in our country following the last general election, and what is happening now as exhibited by the news headlines that we see, mental health is indeed a real threat. It is a course we would want to keep so that we can have mentally stable people in all walks of lives, particularly leaders within families, schools and other areas of work to ensure that we perform optimally in order to break the cultural attitude that looks down upon counselling and instead embrace the established structures in the programmes that we offer. With those remarks, I support the Motion."
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