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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mukwe",
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        "legal_name": "James Lusweti Mukwe",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me an opportunity. This is a very important Motion because it touches on lives of people. As my friend has said, it is also affecting us Members of Parliament. We have those ones who are taking care of their loved ones in hospital. Someone can stay in hospital for almost five years. The person taking care of that patient is stressed. So establishing centres for counselling is very important. Yesterday, I was reading an article on WhatsApp . Mrs. Matiba was narrating how she was tortured and beaten. Eventually, the husband also went through such stress. Such things stress our people. They need to be counselled. There are those who are wrongfully jailed. They stay in prison for 10 years. When the appeal is made in court, such a person may be released. You will always be stressed because you believe you were jailed wrongfully and released without compensation. We must establish counselling centres in our areas like at the constituency level, in hospitals and in schools as colleagues have said because this is affecting everybody. We have Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) across Bungoma County who have lived there since 1992. Up to date, they have not been resettled. They are living in makeshift camps. During rainy seasons like what we are going through, they do not have shelter or food. The children are not going to school. So, such people ought to be counselled. We have killer diseases like HIV/AIDS, cancer and accidents. Parents with physically handicapped children need some counselling so that they can also lead a good life. To wind up, parents whose children die in school dormitories need counselling. They die in dormitories that have been set ablaze by their colleagues. Parents go for their children but those children are killed; they are set ablaze and die in dormitories. It stresses parents because you expect your child to go to school, come back and may be assist you in life but he dies hopelessly like that. I support. Thank you for giving me a chance."
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