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    "id": 834119,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kwanza, FORD-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ferdinand Wanyonyi",
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        "legal_name": "Ferdinard Kevin Wanyonyi",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I take this opportunity to thank Hon. Washiali for bringing up this Motion. First and foremost, we have a problem in the country. Lack of parental care is one of the causes. In fact, the Motion, to me, is a tail end of the problems of child care. You find parents, including myself, taking a child to school and leaving them to teachers. So, what happens? The child gets mixed up. The problem is lack of parental care. The other problem that is serious is: “Spare the rod, spoil the child.” Some parents have left their children to others to take care of them. I take this opportunity to tell Kenyans to, please, take care of their children. All this is happening today. Hon. Washiali, you are right. We leave everything else to others to take care of. Spare the rod and spoil the child. We should reintroduce corporal punishment in schools. That should be done. This country has been thrown to the dogs. The same children you are seeing around are the ones forming the bad boy’s gangs around. The other day, I saw in the newspapers a child who was killed. When you look at it, you will find that the person has not been brought up well. My request is that we do that. The other thing is that we have to fast-track counselling in schools. This House passed a Motion that every secondary school should have a counsellor. What happened? I do not know whether the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology has implemented it or not. As a remedy for those problems, let us have counselling. We passed a Motion that every secondary school must have a counsellor. If PAG is the sponsor of a school, it should hire a counsellor. If it is Catholic, let us have a priest acting as a counsellor so that we have some of those problems detected before they get out of hand. That, again, is in a Motion that this House passed. Lastly, putting the children in prison is just not making sense. You are creating more problems. As Hon. Washiali has said, those are lifelong criminals. When the child comes out of prison, I can assure you that he or she will join another group. We have had the same problem. There was a case in my constituency where four children who had been imprisoned came out and did not seem to have reformed. They even became worse. They are criminal leaders in that area. Therefore, we are not doing anything by putting those children in prison. All you are doing is perfecting them so that they become more dangerous. Putting those children in prison is not a solution. The solution is to have counsellors. Instead of putting them in prison, we should have them counselled. The counsellors should detect bad behaviour and correct it. 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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