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    "id": 1031362,
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    "speaker_name": "Vihiga CWR, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Beatrice Adagala",
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        "legal_name": "Beatrice Kahai Adagala",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I also support Sessional Paper No.3 of 2019 concerning Female Genital Mutilation. (FGM). Mutilation in itself as my colleagues have put it is a bad term. When you mutilate somebody, it means you have destroyed him/her. We have heard it from the horse’s mouth; the people from those areas that undergo such. I may not be in a position to have the experience. However, from the way it is being described, it seems these girls are passing through a terrible situation that is unnecessary. It is very sad if they use crude weapons to scoop women genital parts. That is cruel. One of the senior Members of Parliament talked and I think that is a crime that can be punished if people are practicing it. I am shocked to learn that girls and women private parts are stitched. This makes them not have their menstrual periods in a good manner hence causing blood to go back to the uteruses thus causing diseases like cancer. So, this FGM should be stopped. I do not know if men’s private parts are scooped during the circumcision but some of these cultures must be stopped and done away with to save women. It is sad to hear what women undergo. I have felt it. Therefore, I think this FGM exercise must stop. One person said here that it should be a national disaster and be handled with utmost urgency. This Committee has done a good job and I hope it will be implemented by the necessary agencies so that anybody found mutilating the private parts of a woman must face the law and be jailed. You cannot subject young girls to this kind of humiliation. These women suffer during mutilation and the same scenario will happen when they give birth. This is uncalled for in this time and age. I support this Motion. It should be worked on as fast as possible to help these women enjoy their natural rights. This is a right that every woman must enjoy and it is very sad to learn and hear from the horse’s mouth that they are suffering without bitterness. The women in those areas who are being threatened that they will not be married, I wish to tell them to come to Vihiga. I have a number of men who can marry them if they are being threatened to be circumcised so as to get married. Welcome to Vihiga in western Kenya. We shall accommodate all those girls. I thank you Hon.Temporary Deputy Speaker, and I support."
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