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    "id": 834148,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Loima, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jeremiah Lomorukai",
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        "legal_name": "Jeremiah Ekamais Lomorukai",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this chance. I will start by recognising my honourable colleague, Mr. Jomo, for bringing this important Motion. Indeed, incidents of arson across the country have become so many. This surely puts us in an awkward situation in trying to determine what is really happening across the country. In mid-1980s when some of us started schooling, cases of arson were so rare; you could not experience even one. This means there is something wrong. Maybe, both parents and the Government are sleeping on their job. The implementation of the Motions we pass here is important, like the one on creating counselling centres in all institutions such as primary and secondary schools. If that Motion was implemented, we would not, at this particular time, be talking of trying to create more centres. That is because it was passed. So, there is need for the Committee on Implementation to be following some of those Motions so that we avoid repeating the same issues. If you try to recall what happened in Lokichogio some months ago, one of the students who was chased out of school went into the village and came back with a gun and killed more than five pupils in school. This surely tells us that the kind of scenario our children now live in has gone berserk. We need to do something. We need to support this very important Motion. It tries to tell the courts to enforce the laws that touch on children, especially the Children Act. What is contained there is what the courts should follow. They should not just be jailing children below the age of 18. They need to find the right places for them. This is what makes it critical that we create more centres across the country, even in places such as Turkana County. If an arson incident happens there, I think it would become hard to even transport those that have burnt the buildings. So, there is need to put up more centres across the country in places where probation centres are missing. I support this Motion strongly. I just urge that we need to implement the Motions that we pass here. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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