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    "id": 834163,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Samburu East, KANU",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jackson Lekumontare",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Lentoi Joni L Jackson Lekumontare",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this chance to contribute to this Motion. Our children are going through so many problems. Their being imprisoned with adults is not the solution. The rehabilitation centres are there to correct behaviour and must be improved. When one is taken for that sort of correction, they are not meant to suffer. These centres ought to be allocated with resources so that children do not suffer during the correction period. Our schools have so many challenges which cause the students to do wrong. This is not to say that they have to mix with adults. We need to revive these centres so that we have a place where we can go and correct the unbecoming behaviour in our children. We have cited so many issues affecting schools and we now need to come to our senses and rehabilitate the schools by giving them resources to enable us correct the children’s behaviour. Children are being used by adults to do wrong and they end up in prison. Therefore, as a country, we need to revive these centres. I support Members who have said that we need more of these centres. In some places, taking children to centres is problematic. We need to have many of them so that our children can get good services because the intention of taking them there is to correct them. Children should not be mixed with adults because we know what happens in these prisons. It is very important for us to take care of our young children. It is not correct at all, for minors to be mixed with the adults. Therefore, I support this Motion. We need to revive rehabilitation centres for the sake of the students. Thank you and I support."
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