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    "id": 895407,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/895407/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 440,
        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
        "slug": "kipchumba-murkomen"
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    "content": "Nowadays, people hold onto their problems, look for personal solutions, commit suicide or kill somebody. If you look at the age of the Moi University student, who was killed, and the age of the young man who killed her, no amount of justification can be given for such a heinous act. The same thing happened to the lady who was in Rongo University and such things are happening every day. The unreported cases are far too many. These incidences have been worsened by social media. Our young people do not have time to engage face to face. WhatsApp has become the mode of communication and people do not have time to talk to each other. When you go home, you will hear people say that: “I am checking something on Facebook, WhatsApp or Twitter.” People do not talk to each other and the society is getting wasted as a result of that. Some countries have appointed ministers in charge of social welfare. The nation must have a conversation on these issues and someone has to mobilise the citizens. The religious leaders can help us talk to people though the teachers would be the best people to solve that problem. However, we must first attend to the teachers if we want them to attend to our children. This is something that we need to incorporate in our curriculum for the wellbeing of our country. We must have a conversation around these issues and we must deal with the problems that are affecting this nation. It is not enough to have law enforcement; we must also have preventive measures. If I was asked to give my opinion of the state of the nation today, just like the prophet in Joel 3:14, I would say that we are in the valley of decision making. As a country, we are at a point where we are asking ourselves if we should go west, east, north or south. That is why we have the conversation about the Building Bridges Initiative and how it will look like. We want to fight corruption but we do not know how to do it. We want to address social misfits in the society but we do not know the mechanisms to use. We are in the valley of indecision yet we are a country that calls itself a God fearing nation. We must be the light and the salt of the world as the scripture says. 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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