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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kimilili, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Didmus Barasa",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Didmus Wekesa Barasa Mutua",
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    "content": " Thank you Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to add my voice on this Motion. From the onset, I want to clearly state that I do not support this Motion. A CCTV camera is not a security system but a complementary of the system. What we need is a complete audit of security systems in our schools. I urge the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology to stop their activism. You have seen them going to hotels for seminars and workshops. When they come out of those seminars, they say they want to roll out a single uniform for all the schools in this country. What we need is a security system that will ensure safety of our students. Some of the problems the schools experience are because of lack of management skills by principals or school managers. It is very important that we move away for the tradition of coming up to do firefighting and do a complete audit with recommendations on how we will secure our schools. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, even this Motion is discriminatory. Even students in private schools are our children. Whatever security system we come up with, it must be blanket. It must affect our children in private school as well as those in public schools. I want the Ministry of Education to ensure that it considers issues of unrest and burning of schools when it appraises teachers for promotion to principals and deputy principals. I do not think a teacher who in his or her teaching career has experienced a number of unrests in schools which he or she teaches should qualify for promotion because it must come as a full package. It is not just teaching; they should also have prudent management system. For this reason, I do not support this Motion. It is very expensive and it will not solve the problems we are having in schools as far as insecurity and unrest by students are concerned."
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