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    "id": 821931,
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    "speaker_name": "Mwea, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Joseph Kabinga",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this chance to contribute to this very important Motion by our colleague, Hon. Jessica Mbalu. When we talk about trauma, we all think about some physical sickness or look at it in terms of physical appearance. But at the outset, I want to say that trauma is about the heart and mind. So, when we take victims to hospitals and assume that they will be able to go back to their normal lives, we are lying to ourselves. Gender violence and other violence including terror attacks, injuries or crime cause a lot of trauma to the victims. My brother from Kirinyaga Central just mentioned one of them where recently, one of our very good ladies in Mwea was mutilated by her husband in the name of making her a woman. Although that lady is being treated currently, when she comes out and goes back home, we shall assume that all is well. But I can confirm, out of experience from my previous job, that all will not be well for this lady. She will not live a normal life until some serious counselling is done. For this to be achieved, we need those centers. As we look at our country, this is the way to go. We are having so many things that are causing trauma to our people. We are having so many crimes that are causing trauma to our young girls and boys. There is also poverty that is also causing trauma to most of our people and so, specialized counseling centers that will look at cases like gender violence, is the way to go for this country. To implement the request of this particular Motion, our Government can simply use some of the existing facilities. In my constituency, there is a whole facility under Wamumu Correctional Center where they have more than 100 acres. What the Government should do, is go to such an area, build a good center to serve not just Mwea, but the entire county and the neighbouring counties. I want to urge that this should be taken seriously. I know we have passed so many Motions in this particular House. All of them are pending. We urge the Implementation Committee to take some of these things seriously so that we can save our people from the sickness of their minds and hearts that they are living with. Without going further on this, I want to say that we can even include this as part of our disaster management. Most of the victims of disaster end up being traumatised. Even as we budget for our disaster management, this is something we can budget for and have trauma counseling centers in every constituency. Certainly, as I said, my constituency in Mwea is very ready and we can have a center in Wamumu Correctional Center without the Government spending more resources. We have structures there that can easily be converted to become a regional counselling center for the Mt. Kenya Region. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I totally support."
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