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    "id": 816625,
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    "speaker_name": "Kisauni, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Mbogo Ali",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13383,
        "legal_name": "Ali Menza Mbogo",
        "slug": "ali-menza-mbogo"
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    "content": "In recent weeks, we have seen a number of schools that have been torched. Whenever something happens in one of the schools and nothing is done to bring the culprits or whoever has been involved in that incident, other boys try to imitate and do what other boys have done. This is part of the growing up. It is my wish that as a country and as a House, we need to do something urgently to make sure that we address this issue of safety in our schools. One of the ways to improve the safety in our boarding schools is to introduce the CCTV cameras. Two years ago, the Government installed CCTV cameras in major towns in this country such as Nairobi and Mombasa. We have seen the benefits of those CCTV cameras in these major towns. The muggings, carjackings and other vices have now come down. It is high time that as a House, we rethink this matter and put some measures that will enable us to ensure all the boarding schools in this country and other learning institutions are installed with CCTV cameras to make sure our children are safe and sound. When we take our kids to school especially boarding schools, we always wish that after one and half months, they come home safely but with what is happening in the country, you are not even guaranteed whether they will come back safe during midterm or at the end of the term. As parents, when we take our children to school, especially those in boarding schools, we always wish that after the three months, they are supposed to come back safely. But now with what is happening in the country, you are not even guaranteed when you drop your child at school whether he or she will come back during midterm or at the end of the term. So, it is my wish, like what one of the Members has just said, either the Government to provide a budgetary provision for it so that we have money through, maybe, the constituency level where we can go ahead and install CCTV cameras in the various boarding schools situated in our constituencies, or the CDF kitty to be improved so that we can have an additional allocation which we can use to install CCTV cameras in our schools. With those few remarks, I wish to support this Motion. Thank you."
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