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    "id": 107300,
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    "speaker_name": "Ms. Odhiambo",
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        "legal_name": "Alfred Bwire Odhiambo",
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    "content": "respectively. I want to say and agree with the Minister for Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs when he says that whenever we talk about witness protection, many of us think it has to do only with the ICC. For me, I want to move away from that because we are putting too much emphasis there. My challenge to the hon. Attorney-General is that he will have to create adequate space because he will have several witnesses to protect. These will be witnesses in the name of children who have sexually been abused. I will give you two examples. One of the cases, I dealt with, a Kisii girl aged six years old who was sexually abused by two of her neighbours, one of whom claimed to be a pastor. When the case was pending in court, they threatened the family by telling them if they did not withdraw the case, they would rape the girl again. Since the police were not able to protect her, they raped her again. Secondly, a Luo girl from Kibera, 14 years of age, the same thing happened to her. She was gang raped. When the case was pending in court, the same group told her that if she did not withdraw the case, they would rape her again. We assured her of police protection. However, the police were not able to give her protection and she was raped again. There was also an Ethiopian girl who was living in Kenya, but was abducted and trafficked. The people concerned wanted to forcefully marry her. We tried to help her, but we were not able. We put her in a centre where these people found her and forcefully removed her. Hon. Attorney-General, for me, this is not just an issue of the ICC. It is an issue about thousands of our children who are raped daily. I also want to say that one other thing I love in this Bill; other than dealing with the issue of witnesses, is that it also talks about protection of victims. I want to challenge"
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