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    "id": 834180,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipkelion West, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Hilary Kosgei",
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        "legal_name": "Hilary Kiplang'at Kosgei",
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    "content": "Initially, if parents and teachers are careful enough, they can pinpoint students who are likely to have criminal behaviour. First of all, they will start with a lot of cheekiness after which they easily graduate to having mob behaviour. With the onset of mob behaviour these children graduate to taking drugs, alcohol and engaging in criminal activities like burning of schools. Therefore, what should we do when a child or student has done a criminal activity, for example, when he or she is found with bhang and has participated in burning of an institution? Should we put them in police cells or remand prisons where adults and hardcore criminals are? The answer is no because it is inhuman and also unlawful. Imagine a 12-year-old student being put in a cell where there are adults and these adults are not just ordinary adults but criminals. Within one week, the moment you release that child either from remand or from the police cells, that child is already hardened and will become a criminal. The things that the child will go through in that cell or the remand prison cannot be said. They will be abused and when I say abused I do not mean abusing verbally. There are various other ways of abuse which are very bad. So, as a country, what do we need to do? First and foremost, it is high time parents and teachers took their responsibilities seriously. It is not enough for parents just to send their children to school and that is the end of it. In fact, nowadays, it has gone to a stage that parents actually wish there were no school holidays because they do not want that responsibility. It is high time parents took those responsibilities. Teachers should take caution on children who are likely to go that route. Thirdly, we need to increase the number of functional approved juvenile schools. Those students should carry on with their normal education. Let us not just go there and make them carpenters. They should just continue with their normal learning. At the same time, counselling should go on. That is to mould their behaviour towards what is required. The question of the 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."
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