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    "id": 816613,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mwea, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Josphat Kabinga",
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        "legal_name": "Josphat Kabinga Wachira",
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    "content": " Thank you Hon. Deputy Speaker for giving me a chance to contribute to this important Motion. I stand to support it. This Motion is coming at the right time; a time when most of our schools are losing their infrastructure to fire that is coming from within and outside. We have recently witnessed a number of schools go down because of fire that we are not able to investigate. I say this with a lot of sorrow in my heart. Just on Monday, we lost a dormitory in one of our most beautiful schools in Mwea. We lost a dormitory that was donated to us by the Lions Club. I spent all the time there on Monday. I can confirm that some of these incidents are very difficult to investigate. With the installation of CCTV cameras, our investigating officers will find it much easier to find out the people either intruding or working from inside to destroy some of the infrastructure we have put in place with a lot of strain. I know that some of our constituencies are able to do the installation of the CCTV cameras through the National Government-Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF). But there are some constituencies whose resources are really constrained. It is unfair that we have constituencies comprising of only two wards thereby having resources that can do this kind of work. In my constituency, with eight wards and a number of schools wanting in terms of quantity and quality, I will not be able to install CCTV cameras in my schools. Therefore, I urge the Government to roll out the installation of CCTV cameras as an activity that is not only important but also a must. The amount of resources we are losing to fire and other incidents, our children being mistreated and raped in schools and all these incidents, will be easily investigated if we have CCTV cameras installed in these schools. We are struggling in a number of constituencies. In my constituency for example, I am already organising a harambee in one of the schools by the name of Karoti Girls. As I do so, I 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."
}