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    "id": 834111,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Siaya CWR, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Christine Ombaka",
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        "legal_name": "Christine Oduor Ombaka",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Motion. It is true that young people today are going through a lot of problems. Burning of schools is an indication that something is wrong with young people. There are crimes being committed by young people and the problem is world-wide. This is not a new thing. Young people are normally going through a stage where they are rebellious to society. They find glory in burning schools, beating women, stealing and drinking. This is what they admire. They admire wrong things and commit crimes and do not care about school. I have been telling some young people that burning a school is a crime and it is like burning a church because a school is the place where young people are modeled. That is where their personality is developed and that is the place they learn the values of society. To burn a school is a huge crime. Punishment is required for all that. While we may not want to remand them in jails because they are young, we need to sensitise and make them follow the right path. But still, we need to punish. There are those who constantly commit crimes even when they are counselled. Even when you talk to them, they still drink and beat people in the villages. What is wrong with arresting and imprisoning them for, at least, two years? The Motion says that we should not imprison them, not take them to jail but we should take them to approved schools. The approved schools do not seem to exist. Long time ago, when I was a teacher, I used to hear that there were approved schools where young boys and girls 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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