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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "things. Human life is priceless. You cannot put an amount and say Kshs100,000 or Kshs1 million will be an enough deterrence for people who want to engage in these mischievous activities. Therefore, licensing is critical to me. Mr. Speaker, Sir, finally, it is unfortunate I came in contact with the Bill just a few minutes ago and have not finished reading it. However, it will be interesting to know the deterrent measures that have been put in place for people who violate some of the clauses in this Bill. I hope you have put stringent measures to ensure that the conditions for taking away a license, for example, should be an on and off issue, just the way you switch electricity on and off in the house. If I walk in as an inspector of a county department of children’s homes and find children are not being taken care of; not being given food, accessing education or a place to sleep, I should be able to write there and then that I have revoked the license for X, Y and Z children’s home forthwith because of the following reasons. It should not be a complex process where there are issues of litigation. People going to court and saying that they had a license and it cannot be easily cancelled. It should be made simple. This Committee should be able to walk to a children’s home and inspect. If they find that they are not in compliance with the regulations that have been set forth, let the license be cancelled. If there are people who were found to be well-meaning at the point of registration, but as time goes by, they end up doing certain things that are not in tandem with what is expected of a person who is taking care of children, send them straight to jail. It is unfortunate how our judicial system works. This gentleman that was running a fake children’s home in Bomet County was never jailed for all the 29 years that he lived in this country. It is only at the time that he returned home to USA that people did a proper check on him. It was established that he had been molesting children who were living in his children’s home. As I speak, he is in jail. Let it be properly spelt out in this legislation, what will be done to these kind of people. With those many remarks, I beg to support."
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