Stop the tradition where a father has sex with his daughter before giving her off for marriage-MP says

THE TEMPORARY SPEAKER:  Hon. Member do not sit down, can you explain yourself.  What do you mean?

HON. MURAI:  I am saying how do we identify when one Member of Parliament goes mad in this House?

THE TEMPORARY SPEAKER: Are you referring to the Hon. Member speaking?

HON. MURAI:  It is just a question Mr. Speaker Sir.

THE TEMPORARY SPEAKER:  No, withdraw that statement.

HON. MURAI:  I withdraw Mr. Speaker Sir.

THE TEMPORARY SPEAKER:  There is no point of order. Hon. Member who is debating now, if you so feel about David Whitehead, why do you not move a motion in Parliament and debate about it?

HON. NDUNA: Thank you Mr. Speaker for bringing the issue of David Whitehead.  In particular where they are more than 657 children at David Whitehead Primary School..

THE TEMPORARY SPEAKER:  Order, Hon. Member, I am saying let us desist from referring to David Whitehead all the time you debate.

HON. NDUNA: Thank you Mr. Speaker, but half of those children are girl children.  So, as the issue of judicial management subsists, we want to make sure that David Whitehead Primary Schools is not also attached in the same vain.  Lastly, the issue to do with education and feeding; I want to say 9/10 times, our children at primary and secondary school level are with the teachers.  They spend more than 8 hours with the teachers, we also need to educate our teachers in order to make sure that they educate the parents to avoid and avert child marriages.  Mr. Speaker Sir..

THE TEMPORARY SPEAKER:  You are left with five minutes Hon. Member.

HON. NDUNA: Mr. Speaker Sir.

THE TEMPORARY SPEAKER: You are left with two minutes, wind up your debate.

HON. NDUNA:  Thank you Mr. Speaker Sir.  As I wind up, I want to support the school feeding programme because it is going to keep our children at school.  As long as they are not fed at school, they will think of the family set up where they can get fed and they are convinced that – vanotiza mukumbo.  They will elope because there is no food at home and they will get married at a very tender age.  I ask that this school feeding programme continues unabated and I want to congratulate the Minister of Primary and Secondary Education for bringing this to the fore.  I want to take this opportunity to thank you and to thank Hon. Members and to ask them to debate vociferously and efficiently and also taking to heart that as long as they have taken on board the issues to do with women’s rights and girl children’s rights, they are building a nation second to none. I thank you.

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