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    "id": 811888,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kathiani WDM – K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Robert Mbui",
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        "legal_name": "Robert Mbui",
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    "content": "My Motion intends to ask this House for support in ensuring that we protect our educational institutions. It is only when we have a vibrant and conducive environment that education of our children and of the nation can actually be enhanced. Parliament must, therefore, use its authority to ensure that it protects education in this country. Our educational institutions, learners and workers in those institutions are under attack. Last night, I watched news in one of the channels and they talked about Ng’iya Girls High School. The girls have just gone home for an indefinite period of time because of violence in the school. They also mentioned a girls’ school in Kisumu where girls have also recently been sent home. That is only in one news show. They also talked about Ngara Girls High School where a girl was taken to school and left with the teacher on duty immediately after midterm. Eight days later, they do not know her whereabouts. Also, there is this report about Chalbi Boys in Marsabit where six teachers were attacked by the students and actually one is in critical condition. Basically, we have a major issue. In fact, that station that I watched last night had this question for Kenyans: What is driving student unrest in girls’ schools in Kenya? The magnitude of these cases is more than what I heard in last night news. We are talking about situations of student unrest in Kenya, where we have seen the burning to death of eight girls in Asumbi Girls Boarding School in 2012. Nineteen girls perished at St. Kizito Secondary School in Meru in 1991; 25 students died in Bombolulu Girls Mombasa in 1998; four school prefects in Nyeri High School were burnt by their colleagues in 1999 and 68 boys were burnt to death by schoolmates in Kyanguli Memorial School in Machakos in 2001."
}