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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Milemba",
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        "legal_name": "Jeremiah Omboko Milemba",
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    "content": "have not been institutionalised formally. I, therefore, want to support, but still propose that every Government department, institution and ministry should institutionalise counselling services for its workers. In every place of work, there is not only the issue of mental illness, but also the issue of stress. In fact, what affects Kenyans as a social problem is stress. Coming back to the constituencies, we lack counselling services within the areas of our jurisdiction. I would support very strongly that there is need for the Government to post tacticians who know the issues of counselling in every constituency so that they can work alongside the Members of Parliament’s offices and provide counselling services. More than often, Members of Parliament are confronted with issues of counselling that range from family issues, drug issues among the youths and broken families. It is also true that sometimes, because of lack of trained people to tackle the issue of counselling, other groups have come to pretend that they are doing counselling but at the end of the day, they end up misusing the people who want the counselling services. So, it is in order and I fully support that these counselling services be provided and be accessed from the community. We can train the already available labour within the community. We have chiefs and community health workers who can be trained to provide counselling services within their areas of jurisdiction. Coming to schools, they made an effort to establish counselling services in the institutions but it was not institutionalised in a way that counsellors are paid. So primary and secondary schools, tertiary colleges and universities should be areas of focus for counselling services. We should make sure that counsellors or teachers providing these services are remunerated for the work they are doing. Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. Without much ado, I beg to support."
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