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    "id": 846144,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mumias East, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Benjamin Washiali",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Benjamin Jomo Washiali",
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    "content": " Hon. Deputy Speaker, I beg to give Notice of the following Motion: THAT, aware that buildings in more than 100 Government secondary schools in the country have been torched this year, with many of the arson incidents being blamed on students; further aware that learning in many of these schools has been severely interfered with thus affecting the learning timetable; noting that the number of students arrested for allegedly burning or conspiring to burn school buildings around the country now stands at over 150; cognisant that these students are aged below 18 and are thus juvenile offenders; further cognisant that Article 53(1)(f) of the Constitution provides that every child has the right not to be detained, except as a measure of last resort, and when detained, to be held for the shortest appropriate period of time; and separate from adults and in conditions that take into account the child’s sex and age; appreciating that Section 18(2) of the Children’s Act provides that a child offender shall be separated from adults in custody; further appreciating that the Children’s Act, 2001 advances the protection of children from any action deemed “hazardous or likely to interfere with the child’s education, or to be harmful to the child’s health or physical, mental, spiritual, moral or social development.”; deeply concerned that 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."
}