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    "id": 1031231,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Igembe Central, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kubai Iringo",
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        "legal_name": "Cyprian Kubai Iringo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for this opportunity to make my comments on this Sessional Paper. The immediate speaker has taken us through a session of learning, which maybe Hon. Peter Kaluma wanted to learn more. I believe he can see her aside so that she can go to the details, which to some of us are interesting. We wanted details. We want to hear. It is important. FGM is a norm which has been fought by this country and many other African countries for many years. However, because of cultural backgrounds or when people have a culture which they do not want to run away from, it makes it very difficult. Some of the people who are supposed to oversee the total stoppage of FGM are the ones doing it. In some communities, you find that the chiefs, who are supposed to see to it that the girls are protected, are the ones who are doing it even to their own children. You even find teachers doing it to their own children. Grandparents are the worst of them all, especially those who hide those girls in their houses and do it to them. Therefore, it is a vice which we have to put a lot of concerted gazetted efforts to eradicate. Apart from having it in the Constitution and passage of this Sessional Paper, we need to have each and every person in the community embracing it. Hon. Speaker, according to the Mover, even politicians are shy to mention it because they fear to lose votes. It is true. As leaders, we must come out clean and say that this is wrong. We should stop it even if we lose votes or not, but at least we put our people on the line so that we can say that even if we lose, we have made a mark and changed this country."
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