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    "speaker_name": "Kathiani WDM – K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Robert Mbui",
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    "content": "torched by unruly students and over time have been numerous; concerned that most perpetrators of the dastardly acts of defilement, rape and arson in schools go unpunished due to the difficulty in establishing a nexus between them and the acts and therefore many of the suspects behind the said crimes evade responsibility; cognisant of the duty to protect the dignity, preserve the lives of innocent students and protect school properties from the threat posed by the crime; appreciating the role of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in enhancing security surveillance; this House urges that the Government speedily rolls out installation of Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras in strategic locations in all public secondary schools as an enhanced security mechanism for surveillance of students’ activities; makes provisions for regular and mandatory checks to confirm compliance and enforcement of the mechanism; and, enforces strict admission criteria, including maintenance of a profile of alleged perpetrators of arson to ensure that they do not escape liability by transferring to other schools without proper screening. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the responsibility of any nation is to ensure that they provide a conducive environment for the citizens to carry out their activities and, of course, meet their basic needs. Even at Independence, our founding fathers tried to figure out what would be the hindrance to the development of the country and they identified three enemies. Those were ignorance, poverty and disease. There are solutions to the three of them. The first one on ignorance is provision of quality education and also the improvement of educational institutions. The solution to poverty is provision of quality education and, of course, provision of a conducive business environment and creation of jobs. The solution to disease again is quality education and the provision of proper healthcare. All these threats that we faced as a nation upon Independence still exist up to now and the solution to all this is education. Even as we are gearing towards Vision 2030 in another 12 years, we require an educated population, educated workforce and knowledgeable citizens so that we can build the nation together and in that short period become an industrialised nation. This just underscores the importance of education in any country. Even as a parent, I understand that the best thing you can give to your children is not even wealth in the form of property or money. It is actually education. If you take two parents, one who is filthy rich and has children who do not go to school and one who is poor and has children that actually get proper academic support, chances are that within two or three generations, those from that poor family will actually be running the affairs of those that inherited more money. Therefore, it is important to note that education is of utmost importance. Our Constitution provides as follows in the Bill of Rights. Article 28 on human dignity states: “28.Every person has inherent dignity and the right to have that dignity respected and protected.” Article 29 talks about the right to freedom and security of the person. Article 40 talks about protection of right to property. Article 43 talks about economic and social rights and one of those rights in 43(f) is the right to education. Article 53 talks about children rights, it states “(1) Every child has the right - (b) to free and compulsory basic education and (d) to be protected from abuse, neglect, harmful cultural practices, all forms of violence, inhuman treatment and punishment, and hazardous or exploitative labour.” 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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