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    "id": 1031383,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Limuru, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Mwathi",
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        "legal_name": "Peter Mungai Mwathi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. At the outset, let me thank all Members who have contributed, and all of them unanimously agreed that Sessional Paper No.3 of 2019 as it has come has good intentions for the women of Kenya and that they unanimously support it. It is not that we do not have legal framework to deal with FGM. It is there. It exists. Previously we had the first Sessional Paper on abandonment of FGM. Then this has now come as an improvement of the 2010 which is on the eradication of FGM. I think we must take this conversation to the national level and persuade that every institution and sector must pick up this conversation. This is because the laws as they exist have not been enforced. There is very poor enforcement. I want to persuade us again. It is in this House that we are supposed to enable the anti-FGM board to be able to move out there to do civic education and sensitize people. However, it is in the same House that when they make a budget of Kshs1.5 billion, we give them Kshs100 million. That is little money for recurrent expenditure. However, when we come here we talk very passionately like we have done that we need to work on this as a national debate. So, I persuade Members who have spoken and those who have not that when we are doing our budgeting, we need to remember that we have unanimously supported this Motion. The fact that you need money cannot be gainsaid and when we have a supplementary budgeting process we need to appropriate money. There is a point because people may not know that even the Constitution of Kenya 2010 itself bars anybody from forcing another person to observe cultural behaviour as a way of forcing them to follow what they want them to do. Article 44 (3) says: “A person shall not compel another person to perform, observe or undergo any cultural practice or rite.” The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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