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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Pareno",
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        "legal_name": "Judith Ramaita Pareno",
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    "content": "that parental touch. I know many parents are so busy. We are also busy but if we came out strongly to see how our children are behaving and to monitor them, it will help out. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, this Bill proposes that immediately you notice that a child has a problem or a child is missing, then you should report to the Inspector General of Police. However, a person in the village cannot report to the Inspector General of Police. It should be to the nearest government agency, be it a police station, the local chief, or village elder. Let us make it that simple. If we maintain that provision, our villagers will be unable to report to the Inspector General of Police. Let us amend it to include the nearest authority because you can intervene very fast by reporting to the nearest authority than reporting to the Officer Commanding Police Station (OCS) who is far away from the village yet, these things happen around our schools in the villages, and to reach out to the highest authority will not be easy. I propose that, as the Committee considers this Bill, that we consider the appropriate nearest authorities for reporting if a child has gone missing or if there is something that needs to be reported on the activities of our children when it comes to radicalization. Perhaps, we should broaden it, not just the police, let us go to the village elder and chiefs or the nearest police station. Today, we had a discussion with the Nyumba Kumi Initiative and we had the Chairman, Mr. Joseph Kaguthi, with us this morning as the Committee on National Security, Defence and Foreign Relations. They told us that we now have these small groups or Nyumba Kumi Initiative is everywhere in the villages and each has got a chairperson. These heads know each other; the ten people per group know each other. If you allow these people to report to the head of that Nyumba Kumi or if there is a structure to be reported that is lower, that will help upscale what we want rather than reporting to the highest body like the Inspector General of Police who should be the last resort. By the time the Inspector General of Police knows that something is happening in a village, the chief, the head of the nyumba kumi and of the nearest police station and the children officer should have acted. Let us not leave out the children officer. The children officer should be known by all children and by the people affected in the area. They should know that there is a children officer who is supposed to protect the children when there is trouble and that they can run to that office for rescue or help. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, from our discussion this morning with the Nyumba"
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