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    "id": 834138,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/834138/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Isiolo CWR, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Rehema Jaldesa",
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        "legal_name": "Rehema Dida Jaldesa",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to contribute. I would also like to join my colleagues in thanking Hon. Washiali for bringing this very important Motion. As a parent of school-going children and as a leader, I rise to support this Motion. As parents, we really face a lot of challenges in dealing with teenagers and I really understand the number that has been quoted by Mheshimiwa, that about 235 children were arrested. This is because children encounter a lot of challenges that range from peer pressure, technology advancement; pressures of adolescence, poor parenting, negligence, absentee fathers, and the challenges are massive. We cannot even finish the list of the challenges. Therefore, we will not be right as leaders and as parents to condemn our children, much as we say that we should also not encourage this negative vice. I strongly support that we should have established rehabilitation schools because statistics show that the approved schools we have in Kenya have only 11 juvenile remands which have a capacity of 2,500 children. Therefore, with the rising issues, it will not be enough. I am sure everyone here understands the danger of putting our young children with other criminals. The reports indicate that children have been sodomized in those remands. 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."
}