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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Pareno",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Judith Ramaita Pareno",
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    "content": "radicalisation is because they are idle, jobless and have to look for something to do to earn a living. They think there are greener pastures wherever they are promised. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I do not know whether other Members have seen a video that was circulating on social media. In the video, a young man was crying that he had been taken to Somalia and was now there limbless and abandoned in the camp because a bomb had blown off his legs. He was crying for someone to get him out of there. He said he is a Kenyan who had gone there to be employed. He was trying to reach out to a certain teacher to help him. They were giving names in the video, with the young man saying that he went there because he thought there was a job for him, but he was recruited to participate in terrorism activities. I do not know whether you saw that video in the social media. That was a child crying desperately. It is true that he was duped and thought there was a job out there for him. Many of our youths are conned into believing that they will be employed and make their ends meet. One is lured in the first place because of being jobless, idle and not thinking of one’s job because of their character. We need to go back and reverse all this. I think introducing good teachings in our schools will help to reverse all this. Even if one will not be employed, his character will be changed and he will improve on his livelihood. The Bill proposes that we even have a background check of those that are teaching our children. If we are vetting Cabinet Secretaries (CS) and everybody else, how come we have had people with fake certificates purporting to be teachers? We do not know the background of such people while others are hiding and pretending to be imparting religious knowledge to our children. They might be radicalising them in the name of teaching them. We need to do a lot of vetting to know their background before we engage them to teach our children. This Bill seeks to bring a background check that will ensure that those that are going to teach our children are people whose backgrounds we have counterchecked so that we do not create harm. I believe this should also be done in the churches because we have been told some of this radicalization has been done behind the churches. Somebody sits and pretends he is a preacher but instead, he is operating a devil’s workshop. We should create vetting mechanisms for those teaching in schools, churches and in whatever institution so that we do not have the wrong information going to our children. Also, we should not give a chance to those who possess fake papers to have a field day, pretending to be teachers. If somebody can forge certificates and other credentials, that person can do anything. He can pretend to be somebody else that he is not. They are dangerous to our children and of questionable character. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, on the issue of poverty, I hope as we create interventions, as proposed by this Bill, it will be tackled. If we do not tackle poverty, we will continue having the same problems. Since our youth are sometimes idle, we need to watch out for these extra-curricular activities. I see a lot of leagues, the governors coming up with the Governor’s Cup, the Senator’s Cup and so forth. Let us ensure that our children are busy at all times. I agree when this Bill proposes that parents also take responsibility because a teacher cannot be the only person to have responsibility over one’s children. It brings out The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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