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    "id": 922447,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri",
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        "legal_name": "Samson Kegeo Ongeri",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, I shall not attempt to go on the direction of Kiswahili language because I want to make a very important point. It is quite clear that bullying has a hostile intent in any manner and way. When children go to school, they go to learn experiences that will sustain them in their lifetime. They will be able to learn, to be able to know the normal decorum that they must follow in order to be able to sustain themselves in life. It is one way bequeathing our children boys and girls at school the ability to engage others in a much more friendly way than in a hostile manner. When we have bullying in schools is a clear indication that that school is out of order. There is no order in that school and students are not being taught to behave in a certain manner and accept each other the way they are. During my period of time as the Minister for Education, this is one of the things that I took a very stern action on. I urge headmasters, headmistresses, Parents/Teachers Association (PTA), teachers and the students’ council to meet and get an orderly way of doing things in those schools. The bullying is done by the students who have been there longer than the others. If it is done repeatedly, not occasional occurrence, then that becomes an intent which is hostile. That bullying is unacceptable in law and nobody should accept it in our schools. Mr. Speaker, Sir, sometimes this bullying leads to injury. The injury needs not be physical, but it can also be psychological trauma. This is much more dangerous than the physical injury because physical injury can heal. However, if it gets to an extreme extent where you have broken limbs or broken parts of the body that becomes a very dangerous criminal act which needs to meet the full force of law. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we, as parents and everybody else should discourage this bullying. We should never go that way. Let us welcome students in our schools in a very civilized way, especially now that Christianity and Islam has taken roots in our learning institutions. We should be able to allow children to grow in an orderly fashion. Our God is a God of order, not a God of chaos. I thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir."
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