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    "id": 1031338,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1031338/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 174,
        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
        "slug": "amos-kimunya"
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    "content": "Degrading Treatment or Punishment, 1984; and the UN Convention on the Rights of a Child, 1989. So, it is not like we are starting from zero. All these conventions have been there and they are ratified as part of the Kenyan laws. However, the whole world is laughing at us that we have all these conventions ratified and codified in our laws and we are still having 94 per cent of our population being subjected to torture that is against the international conventions that we have ratified. Article 44(3) of the Constitution bars any person from compelling another person to perform, observe or undergo any cultural practice or rite. If you look at FGM, its proponents say that it is a cultural rite that is performed each year and everyone must be subjected to it. Article 53(d) of the Constitution, specifically states that children should not be subjected to harmful cultural practices, inhuman and degrading treatment. Article 55(d) of the Constitution requires the State to take measures, including affirmative action programmes, to ensure that the youth are protected from harmful cultural practices and exploitation. I believe this is the basis for the formulation of this policy. In addition to the laws that were anchored in the Constitution to give effect to Articles 44, 53 and 55 of the Constitution, and to revise what was already there, this policy was generated to bring in other stakeholders beyond the legal framework. That will be the other programme. I believe the implementation of this policy will facilitate a multi-sectoral approach. It will bring together state and non-state actors, the Ministry that is responsible for gender affairs and the Gender Commission to work together with the Anti-FGM Board, the county governments, the county assemblies, the Maendeleo ya Wanawake Organization, the Maendeleo ya Wanaume Organization and all other people who have something to do and say about girl-child protection. They will work together to implement this policy and help in its revision and any revision of our laws to ensure that we eliminate this practice in line with our sustainable development goals. Basically, I am saying that nobody should be left behind. There is no way we can say that we are developing while we are leaving behind 94 per cent of the Somali girls, 86 per cent of the Samburu girls, 78 per cent of the Maasai girls and 84 per cent of the Kisii girls who are subjected to inhuman and cruel treatment as the rest of the world moves on. With those remarks, I support."
}