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    "speaker_name": "Kaiti, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Joshua Kivinda",
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        "legal_name": "Joshua Kivinda Kimilu",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to join my colleagues to support the Motion of installing CCTV cameras in our schools. I take this opportunity to support it because it is very important and I can say it is long overdue. In the constituency I come from of Kaiti, I had a case whereby some boys burnt a school and it took a long time to locate or get evidence of those boys. However, if we had CCTV cameras in that school, it could have given us shorter time or period to identify those boys. Banning of boarding schools is not a solution to this issue because we need our boarding schools. Our boys and girls are doing well in boarding schools. The best thing to do is to install the CCTV cameras and also security in our schools instead of abolishing the boarding schools because it is not a solution. Also, we have cases where some boys and girls sneak out of schools at night and teachers are not in a position to locate or know those who are sneaking because there is no evidence and they do not have enough information. Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras in our schools can be a solution because it will be easy for teachers to locate or know those who sneak out of school. Cases of defilement happen every now and then. You have heard from the media that every day we get cases of defilement in our schools. Some of those things happen in the corridors of our schools. Because there is no monitoring in our schools, you cannot even know who is doing this. With CCTV cameras, it will be very easy for us to get reports or evidence of those doing those things. On Monday this week, I was in my Kaiti Constituency issuing some cheques and building dormitories. It is very expensive to build school infrastructure. One or two years after building the schools, the boys or girls burn them down. So, you go back to conduct Harambee to support the schools. Because they are our children, we have to support them. It is very expensive to build school infrastructure. If, as Members, we join hands and support the issue of CCTV cameras and security in our schools, we can solve this problem once and for all. There is also the issue of delocalisation of teachers. Some of those things are widening the chances of burning of our schools. Once you transfer teachers from one school or county to another, even before he knows the corners of that school or the students, some of those things can happen and he cannot be in a position to know who is doing it. The Ministry of Education has to do something on the issue of delocalisation. I cannot support it because we are bringing issues and problems to our schools. We also need good planning by the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of the Interior and Coordination of National Government because we need security in our schools. In case of anything, like burning of schools, we need to see a quicker response by the security apparatus in our schools. With those few remarks, I support the Motion on introducing CCTV cameras in our schools."
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