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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wako",
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        "legal_name": "Amos Sitswila Wako",
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    "content": "radicalisation. Therefore, those are some of the issues that must be dealt with. I am glad that this Bill addresses those particular issues and gives the Ministry of Education the responsibility, through the County Education Board, institution administrators; and even parents and guardians to educate the children not to be radicalised. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we will not be the first country to use education as a means of countering radicalisation. I recently saw on television that China has very many students who are undergoing training in special colleges which are specifically earmarked for radicalized people, particularly the youth, so that they do not continue in their radical ways. It may not be like the Muslim radicalisation. As you know, China is a country of many nationalities, and the Chinese Government has fears that there is an increasing radicalisation of the youth in some areas to the extent of even making them want to leave China. Therefore, China, being a country of billions of people, rather than going piecemeal the way we have gone – through the County Education Boards, schools and so on, and so forth – it has actually put up training colleges and institutions so that if they come across any person who has been radicalised, he is sent to that institution for training. From what I have heard, there are hundreds of thousands of such people undergoing training in China so that they do not continue being radicalised. I, therefore, commend Sen. Waqo for bringing this amendment to ensure that our schools should engage in these programmes of countering radicalisation. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we are talking about the curriculum which is taught in all schools, having the necessary checks in schools and inter-agency collaboration which is necessary for this type of thing. The reason I particularly like this amendment brought by my namesake is the fact that those who have been lured to go away will not be victimised. This is because even when these radicalized youth want to come back, they fear that they will be victimised when they come back. That, therefore, makes it very difficult for us to deal with terrorism. This is because if they fear that they will be “dealt” with when they come back as terrorists, then they might as well become terrorists, and then come back to carry out their terrorist acts."
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