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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "later became the very able chairperson. It came out that within the last two years, there has been an outbreak of these issues. Madam Temporary Speaker, I know my time is running out. I do not know how many more minutes I have. However, an aspect that we need to state clearly is that many people sometimes take advantage of a family member or associate who gets a mental health illness. Their rights to their property and issues of custody are taken advantage of. This Bill stipulates how that needs to be done to protect them from abuse both physical, mental and economic to help them get a sponsor or somebody who together with the doctor can go through what the treatment is and for them to choose. There are many people who, for instance, if you want to deal with someone, you just say take them to a mental health facility and say they are mad. Madam Temporary Speaker, if today I was to kidnap you for instance and I take you to Mathare Mental Hospital, God forbid, and I tell the doctor that she is mad. The doctor will ask you, are you insane. What will you say? No. If you say no, he will tell you that you are. If you say, yes, you are confirming. There is no right answer. In many of these facilities they do not have the ability to make sure. So people will take advantage of that to have you locked up. Our mental health facilities in many respects have become prisons because of other conflicts that occur within the family. They want to inherit land. They say their parents have gone mad. It is happening across the country. This Bill at least I am sure and with the regulations that will accompany it, will stop that which is happening in many parts of our country. Madam Temporary Speaker, as I finish so that I can give Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve - who I know definitely has something to say on this Bill, because she is very widely read and always has something to say being a doctor - time to also speak on this, I want to thank profusely on behalf of all the Senators and people of Nairobi County who will benefit from these provisions. I am not shy to say it. I thank Sen. Kasanga. This is a bold and landmark Bill. This is one of those Bills like Lady Justice Njoki Ndung’u’s Act on sexual offenses. This is like the 30 per cent which I did, if I am allowed to tweak a bit of my own. These are those Bills which you will always remember because many Kenyans are affected but many have been too shy to talk about it. Madam Temporary Speaker, as I finish, it is okay not to be okay. Thank you. I second."
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