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    "id": 834167,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/834167/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kanduyi, FORD-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Wafula Wamunyinyi",
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        "legal_name": "Athanas Misiko Wafula Wamunyinyi",
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    "content": "committed some offence. The Mover is not talking about street children. I want us to be careful with our words when referring to child or juvenile delinquency. This Motion targets children, and students in schools from normal families. Therefore, it is important to recognise that it is illegal and unacceptable to take children to a prison and remand them with adults. This is not something we need to debate about because the law is very clear on it. The point I wish to bring out is that detention of children cannot be done outside the law. The law is very clear on how to handle children or the offenders who are under age. It is important for us to stress this so that it is adhered to. The most important fact that we need to establish is the root causes of cases referred to by the Mover of this Motion; that is burning of schools and indiscipline. We need to know the root cause and why it is happening. This needs to be investigated and addressed. In fact, my colleagues who have spoken earlier have talked about continuous guiding and counselling is schools. Something we have talked about many times and passed laws on. Kenya now has an increasing number of counsellors and psychologists in the market who are not utilised to help us deal with cases such as the ones in question. We also have the borstal institutions but they are not necessarily institutions where you can take a child who has committed some indiscipline in school. There is also a procedure of taking young offenders to borstal institutions and approved schools. Therefore, it is important for us to follow the law. Recently, the Governor of Uasin Gishu County picked up all the street children in Eldoret, put them in a truck and dropped them in Bungoma and Busia. Now Bungoma city is full of street families. There should be a way of dealing with these issues as opposed to treating them as criminals. I want to appeal that as we go further and address the issues affecting these school children…"
}