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    "id": 790578,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/790578/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Muchira",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Michael Mwangi Muchira",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this Motion by Hon. Member for Makueni. As we all know, everybody, irrespective of their status and position, undergoes some stressful moments in life. It is at this point that we require somebody that we can vent out to and somebody who can listen to us. So, I support the introduction of counselling services in every institution. In life, we undergo various experiences. Some people undergo job losses, others have relationship problems and others have stress of losing elections. I, therefore, support that in every institution, we require some counselling services. We know that lack of counselling leads to a lot of problems such as mental illness, drug abuse, alcohol addiction, suicide and illicit behaviour like what we are seeing on social media. Of late, we have seen something trending in the media about our youth. We have seen how ‘ifikie wazazi’ slogan by our children is going round. All these problems are symptoms of the problems we are undergoing in our society. We, therefore, need to have vibrant counselling departments in all institutions including learning institutions such as primary and secondary schools and Universities, so that anyone who feels is undergoing some difficult moments, can go and share their problems with the counsellors."
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