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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Rindikiri",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Mugambi Murwithania Rindikiri",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this very important Motion. I come from Buuri Constituency, which is highly cosmopolitan. We have the largest wheat and flower farms in Meru. We also have a large pool of people who are not from the Meru community. When emigrants go to new places, they experience rejection from the inhabitants, meaning that they need to be integrated to the communities they join. Counselling centres will give them an opportunity to learn how to relate with the local community. In the recent past, as my colleagues have said, we have witnessed a very unique trend where a father wakes up, hacks his wife to death together with the children and hangs himself. This is a very hardworking person meaning that there is a problem as people grow. My daughter is in Canada and my son is in the UK. The first thing they did when they arrived there was to be taken through counselling sessions on how to adjust to the society. The economy is growing and people are moving. They are going to new heights. Psychological problems are related to development. Even where there is a lot of development, there are people with mental problems. That is where we have people interacting more. That presents opportunities for drugs for the youth and other related issues. This Motion is a wake-up call to all of us that we have a problem right at the grassroots. We are interacting day and day on Facebook, TV and all that. Our youth are trying to adjust to the life in America because of what they are seeing on TVs. Our youth are trying to imitate the lifestyles of the West as shown by TV. We need to bring them to the reality of our situation where we are at the grassroots. Therefore, counselling is very critical to our society at this particular moment. We have all come from elections. We have witnessed tribal clashes. We have seen a very rare situation where the President and the former Prime Minister have shaken hands. That has brought problems to some people even in this Parliament. That handshake, in as much as it is good, has caused a problem. Some of us require counselling. This counselling cannot be done in Nairobi. It needs to be done at the constituency level because they were relying on Uhuru and Raila to give them political support which is no more. So, they need help. As Members of Parliament, we also need help. We have workers like house helps who we leave with our children. What has happened? It has led to kidnapping, rape, and all that. It is not just establishing centres but making it a life- moving circumstance such that from the basic level to a kid or a teacher in school, it is a concern for everybody. The counselling centres need to be joined with other institutions of the Government because counselling cannot work. We need teachers to be counselled. So, the education system The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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