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    "id": 834122,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Isiolo North, KPP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Hassan Hulufo",
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        "legal_name": "Hassan Oda Hulufo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I would like to thank Hon. Washiali for bringing this Motion which I support. As a country, we are alive to the fact that we are having a lot of misbehaviour among our children, especially in high schools. We cannot wholly blame our students for their misbehaviour. Part of the reasons we are observing an upsurge in misbehaviour in our schools could be attributed to what happens at home and generally in society, as well as in the school environment. There are lapses in terms of parenting at home. If we are frank with ourselves as parents, we should appreciate this. We also have situations where schools are not managed properly. There is poor governance, poor student-teacher relationship, and inadequate counselling in our schools. We have discussed this before where counselling departments in our schools are not functional. Where they are functional, probably the students are not getting adequate counselling and so on and so forth. We also have situations where drugs find their way into our schools. Of course, you cannot blame students for this. This is something that probably can only happen if there is laxity on the part of school administration, especially those who are supposed to provide security for the schools. Juvenile crime is, of course, a serious issue in our country. As to whether a child is in school or not, as long as the child is below 18 years, he or she should be sent to a remand home or to an approved school. That decision normally lies with judicial officers. As legislators, we should be aware that we have very few rehabilitation schools. Those few schools are also ill- equipped to deal with challenges of rehabilitating delinquent students in current times. Most of those institutions were set up during colonial times and are concentrated in high potential areas. For instance, we have 11 juvenile remand homes and the Children’s Department. We also have 10 schools for rehabilitating children who, after assessment, are sent to rehabilitation schools. You realise that in those 10 schools, eight are for boys and two for girls. In the whole of northern Kenya, we do not have a single rehabilitation school. So, you can imagine if a kid misbehaves in Moyale, which is at the far end on the border with Ethiopia, if he or she is to be referred to rehabilitation schools for correction, the closest is in Nyeri County. The same happens to students in Mandera, Garissa, Tana River and other places. Therefore, as I support this Motion, we need to seriously think about how best children can be provided with opportunities for them to change their behaviour through placements in rehabilitation schools. But those schools need to be adequately funded. Those who are managing those schools and the teachers need to be trained afresh so that they are properly equipped to deal with the modern students. The students of yesteryears are different from the current generation of students whom we have, some of whom are more advanced in terms of their thinking and creativity which is misdirected to commit crime compared to their parents. 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."
}