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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "He was simply focused on immorality in school. Mr. Speaker, Sir, as a nation, we need to start a public conversation on morality. The other day I was addressing people in Bungoma County and some of them were teachers. I told them that if a teacher whom we entrust our children more time than the actual parents turns onto these children, then they are psychos. I also told them that if the attraction a teacher has to a pupil he teaches is uniform, he should go and buy his wife uniform so that every time he looks at her, he gets attracted. It is so bad. One of the problems, as Sen. Khaniri has pointed out, is the parents. In many counties, men who make young children pregnant end up on negotiation tables with parents paying some nominal fines in terms of cattle, sheep or money and the child is destroyed. Five years ago, I visited a post-natal clinic in my county and I found that out of 25 young mothers on queue for attention, only three were above 20 years. The youngest was 10; a child carrying a child. A 10 year old having a child means she was impregnated at the age of nine. Something has gone wrong in our country. We must do something. Child molestation carries a life sentence. I would want to see the Committee on National Security, Defence and Foreign Relations and the Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights bring us statistics on how many male Kenyans are in jail for life, for child molestation. There is probably none yet this is a daily event and routine. Once a child gets a child, we cannot pretend that they can concentrate in school and be good students. Maybe four per cent can concentrate. The rest are mothers and the instinct 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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