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    "id": 1049322,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1049322/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo - Mabona",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 376,
        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "Rights. But once an ordinary citizen of Kenya or any other person in Kenya decides to bring an issue that is of concern to them, it is not up to us as a Parliament to then reframe it for them because our understanding is very different. I remember when we were passing the Constitution, when we talked about the freedom of expression, one of us was very explicit and she said, dress is part of freedom of expression and we stopped for two days discussing whether a dress is freedom of expression or not. So if a Kenyan decides to say that we want to include dress as a right, then Parliament comes and says no, frame the question whether it is freedom of expression, you would have taken away that person’s right because inherent in what they were saying was the fact that women are mistreated because of the way they dress. Women are raped because of the way they dress. So they are talking a lot of issues through that expression of freedom to dress."
}