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    "id": 1031301,
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    "speaker_name": "Narok CWR, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Soipan Tuya",
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        "legal_name": "Roselinda Soipan Tuya",
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    "content": "I support the Report of the Committee. We need to walk the talk. With the passage of the Children Act, it became one of the first domestic laws that spoke against FGM and protection of our children. Over 20 years down the line, I do not think the laws have done what they ought to have. We passed the laws and relaxed that the law was going to do the work. The work lies elsewhere. We have the laws, we know the negative effects of FGM and now we need to take this a notch higher. As a House, we should start with sufficient funding for the Anti-FGM Board so that we leave discussing FGM in board rooms and go to where the tyre meets the tarmac, which is at the grassroots level to engage our men. All the shenanigans about pleasure, whether a cut woman is more pleasurable than one who is not cut and vice versa, is neither here nor there. In Narok County, we are fighting the fallacy that when a woman is cut, she becomes less sexually active. We must call it out for what it is. I do not know how many girls we are going to take back to school come January in Narok County. Many of our girls are pregnant and most of them or a great percentage of them have been subjected to FGM. So, what is this talk to the effect that when you circumcise a woman, she will not be sexually active? That is not… Hon. Speaker, please, give me a minute to wrap up. I urge Members of the House to take the issue seriously and, please, let us support the Anti-FGM Board with sufficient resources so that we can go to the ground and talk to our men and administrators. We take the conversation to the grassroots because our women are the biggest perpetrators. This is because of the socialization to the effect that, if a woman does not get cut, she will not get a husband. That already is like being ostracized from the society. Those are the conversations we need to take down there. Were we to…"
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