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    "id": 816720,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Godfrey Osotsi",
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        "legal_name": "Godfrey Osotsi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Motion. I stand to support it but I have very serious reservations. Whereas on the face of it, it looks a good thing to have this CCTV installation done in schools … Si you know that this Motion has been precipitated by what is going in our schools at the moment – the crime in our schools? But as Hon. Baya and Hon. Nyikal have indicated, the issues affecting our schools are more complex than just having CCTV installation. That is the truth. I have managed to visit a number of national schools in this country and I have seen it for myself. There is congestion in classrooms, dormitories and laboratories. It is pathetic that even national schools are not well equipped to handle the large number of students. We also have serious issues with accommodation. Some schools have serious issues with sanitary facilities. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we will conduct a Harambee next week for one of the national schools in the former Western Province so that we can construct a sanitary block for the school. Instead of us dealing with the CCTVs issues, can we start handling issues that affect the schools? Installing CCTV cameras is a good thing but what is the priority? Priorities differ across our schools. There are schools which do not have laboratories while others do not even have enough teachers. If you give them CCTVs, it is like giving me Panadol yet I am suffering from malaria. You will not be solving the problem. The other concern is technology and not just the CCTVs. What technology is being used? If we want to have sustainable CCTV installation in schools, we must go for appropriate technology. We must have CCTVs that can withstand weather conditions and vandalism from students. Otherwise, we will spend a lot of money installing them only for the students to vandalise them within a short time. It costs about US$300 to set up an appropriate camera for CCTV. Probably, depending on the vastness of the school, you may need up to 20 or 30 cameras. That means spending up to US$10,000 on installation of CCTV cameras alone. We also have maintenance and monitoring costs. There will also be need to have a central monitoring facility. On technology, in other countries that have implemented this system, you must have an interaction with parents. How can parents monitor their schools using CCTVs? It means you must go for IT-based CCTV so that I can log onto my internet and observe my child in class when I am at home. There is the issue of technology, which we must look into. There is also the issue of cost. I have done calculations. If we have to set up this in all the schools, we will need a minimum of Kshs30 billion. What is the priority? Is it having teachers and facilities in schools or having CCTVs in schools?"
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