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    "id": 834183,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kabuchai, FORD-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. James Mukwe",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 1641,
        "legal_name": "James Lusweti Mukwe",
        "slug": "james-lusweti-mukwe"
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this chance to contribute to the Motion. As the saying goes, charity begins at home. We have some parents who do not take care of their children. They leave their children to live as if they are in the streets. When they make mistakes, they are not punished. That encourages the child, even if he is in school, to always make mistakes and they do not expect anything to happen to them. If a child is taken to prison, the cells or to remand, the fingerprints are taken and once they are taken, this child remains a criminal throughout their life. Nowadays, if you want to get a job, there is an issue of certificate of good conduct and once your fingerprints are taken as a criminal, you will never get it. The cells in Kenya are in bad condition. When our children are taken to the cells, they will go through hardships. They are sodomised and you know once something like that happens to a child, he will remain a victim. As much as he grows up, he will not get a good life like others because he was molested when he was in cells. For instance, take the girl who burned a school in Nairobi. A young girl burned a school and the parents said they cannot punish their child because she was in school and was in the company of others. Clearly that was the student who burned the school but the girl was sent away without being punished. That encourages others to do such mistakes. Secondly, these children are underage and once they are put in the cells... There is a lot of congestion in our cells. Let us establish the approved schools or the rehabilitation schools so that our children are advised, taught good manners and taken through that course that will take them into life as adults and as responsible people. This is a timely Motion because our children are suffering. Taking children to cells and remand will not correct the behaviour of our children. They must be counselled and they must be in school. Some of those who are in schools like chaplains are not trained. Those children go there without even a course or anything about guidance and counselling. They must be trained so that when they are in school preaching to our children they can also counsel and guide them. With those few remarks, I support."
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