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    "speaker_name": "Kathiani WDM – K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Robert Mbui",
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    "content": "Just recently, there was a case I mentioned in the Motion about Moi Girls School Nairobi where a girl was raped. Just last year, about 10 girls died in an inferno in the school dormitory. So, this is not a small thing. I have statistics from the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology and the latest they have now is 2016. They draw a very nasty picture about this country on how badly our schools have been burnt, the number of people injured and the number of lives lost. It is incredible. Even the statistics we have from the Ministry are clearly not conclusive. In 2016, I was still representing my constituency and I know there are schools that had issues of arson that have not been reported here because most times when the principals report these cases, it is deemed they have failed. Therefore, they shy away and if there is no major injury or death then they are swept under the carpet. It is a major problem which we are facing as a country. Therefore, what is our solution? This is what I propose for this House. I heard the CS for Education, Science and Technology also mentioning it. I tried to bring this Motion during the last Parliament that we need to install security surveillance in all our institutions of learning. If you install Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras in strategic places within the schools, it means that the people planning arson attacks, attacks on teachers or destruction of property will be scared because they will know that they can be seen. All cameras are not visible. When we talk about CCTV surveillance we have visible cameras. We could also go to the point of having some hidden cameras in strategic places where it is not their privacy that is being deprived but we just watch to ensure that no Kenyan is hurt. By doing this, we shall be discouraging these criminals. I call them criminals because sometimes we want to call those criminals students but when a child can light a fire in a dormitory which kills 68 colleagues that is literally a criminal. That is not someone we can call somebody’s child or a student. It is someone who has crossed the line. We are also proposing to have regular and mandatory checks to ensure that these cameras are working. We all know that in this country we have good ideas like I saw a report on Kenya 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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