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    "id": 816661,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Turkana South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. James Lomenen",
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        "legal_name": "James Lomenen Ekomwa",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I stand to support this important Motion of installing of CCTV cameras in all public secondary schools. It is really discouraging and disgusting to send your child to a school expecting adequate protection, security and good performance, only to realise that the child has been assaulted and raped in school. For example, there is a scenario where a student comes from a place like Kibich reporting to Moi Girls Nairobi and then her parent is told the child has been raped in Nairobi. How long will that parent take to arrive to Nairobi? It will take long. That is why some parents actually resolve to just put their children within their vicinity where they can actually reach. So, it is the role of the Government to ensure there is adequate security in all public schools and even private schools. This is because the children who are in schools are there for future generations and for their bright future. So, if you do not take care of these children, surely how will we assure God that the next generation will actually survive? It is also evident that the world is becoming dynamic. Even the children that we take to schools are becoming more informed than even us, as parents, and they do everything they can decide to do even to destroy a school. The only thing we can do as leaders and as a Government is to ensure we install adequate security measures in all schools so that we protect the pupils and students from anybody who has ill motives towards them by ensuring that we have provided preventive measures to secure those children. Even these CCTV are not enough. You can put CCTV there but as a Member of Parliament who comes from the insecure areas, putting CCTV is not enough. We need to provide security even in the dormitories. We need to ensure that at night, every dormitory has enough security. It is not adequate to have a watchman at the gate and then in the dormitories you do not have security. It is proper and in order to ensure all the dormitories in public schools have enough fencing and security in every dormitory so that if there are students who have any motive, the security is there to prevent them from doing that. If there is any person from outside who wants to do something in the school, there is enough security there. We should not focus on fencing and CCTV only. We have to ensure there is adequate security in those schools to protect both the teachers and the pupils and students who are there. So, this CCTV is not enough. The other thing is how we enforce our laws. You find a teacher or student who has assaulted or burnt a property and we do not take action. It is good to take action to enforce the law so that the rest will learn a lesson. That is the reason we have prisons to correct those who do things that are not right. So, we also have to enforce the law even if we install CCTV. We have CCTV cameras along these highways and everywhere we pass, but even if something is shown, there is no action that is being taken. So, we need convectional and practical measures of security 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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