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    "id": 1083513,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David ole Sankok",
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        "legal_name": "David Ole Sankok",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to also support this Bill and congratulate Hon. Millie Odhiambo for bringing such a Bill. Being a cultural man, I may not mention all that Hon. Dawood was mentioning in broad daylight, but I will try as much as possible to be a bit civil while I am contributing. The Assisted Reproductive Technology Bill, 2019 has been brought by Millie Odhiambo who very well knows the pain that women and even men who are unable to get children go through. I am civilised but not westernised. I am a Christian believing in Christ within the parameters of our Maasai traditions and cultures. Yes, we know that there is a lot of pain when you are unable to get a child, but in our cultures and traditions, there was this reproductive assisting system in which a child belonged to the community; not a single individual. Therefore, all of us would have children whether biologically or not. In our tradition, a woman is allowed to marry another woman and they get children and the arrangement is that the children belong to the woman who has married another woman or who has paid the bride price. In our tradition, there is no name for a step mother or a step brother because all of us belong to our parents, whether biological or otherwise. Hon. Speaker, I wish we can incorporate our own cultures in this Bill so that we do not become so much westernised rather than being civilised and forget our cultures and traditions that used to solve such psychosocial traumas. We must accept the fact that town dwellers are more westernised than civilised. They neither know our cultures nor traditions. You come to Nairobi, go to any other city in Kenya and even some urban centres, and find people who may not even know there is a lot of incest. There are those who even marry relatives without knowing. For us the Maasai, we know the clans. We follow clan lines and so many issues. Therefore, for the benefit of these town dwellers, I support this Bill so that we can solve some problems that have emerged not as a result of our cultures, but as a result of us being so much westernised. All these problems could have been solved by our cultures. This Bill will address and solve many issues. One of the issues is a causal trauma that the victims who are unable to get children go through. They are referred to in demeaning manners: barren or that they are unable to rise to the occasion. Most of them even die using the blue pills that Hon. Kutuny has just mentioned, as they try as much as possible to bear children. Therefore, we will save many lives if we pass this Bill so that they can also get their own children. It will also solve the issue of child trafficking. The child trafficking and child theft that is happening is not for people who can have children like Hon. (Dr.) Pukose or me who has seven children. They are sold to those who are unable to get children because of desperation. So, child trafficking will not be there. Men are also suffering from slay queens. Men marry slay queens who then ensure that they get any man with a “six pack” the day after and lie to you later that the child looks just like you; from behind. They lie that when you see the medical side of your brain and the child’s, they look exactly like yours. 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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