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    "id": 1105181,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Prof.) Jaqueline Oduol",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "wilson sossion",
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, I particularly wanted to speak about the purpose of charity frameworks. In our country, we have lost the sense of responsibility; the Ubuntu spirit that we previously had, where we would be concerned with certain issues. It could be widows, orphans or any other group that was disadvantaged and experiencing hardships in life. We have lost that framework, by which we could organise and help out people who were in need. We have now found ourselves in a situation where we are training our youth to look outward. Our youth now assume that help must come from donors, whom they usually view as foreigners. I support this amendment because it is helping us to have a very clear framework of not only managing and investing our money and property, but also dealing with issues that concerns our families and ensure that there is a way of contributing to matters that affect our societies during our lifetime and thereafter. I support this amendment because it gives us a very good framework. I appreciate that we would want to make sure that trusts help to protect children and widows. I also hope we want a country where we would teach our children values. As much as we would not want to allow men who father children to go scot-free and not necessarily to be held countable, it is time we also ensured that our girls and young women do not go overboard. In my experience as a teacher, I know of cases where young girls, and sometimes older women, decide to have children without the knowledge of the fathers of those children, only for those women to subsequently turn around and start to cry foul just for the men alone. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I have a few more months to speak to these matters in this House. I am here to represent women. I come from the quota of marginalised women, but it behoves us all to look at gender in terms of the way injustice is sometimes perpetrated against a person of either gender. I would like to go on record that we must not, in any way, allow children to suffer by letting their male parents go scot-free. However, we must also stop the culture of young girls and women sometimes scheming to have children with men, without their consent or knowledge, and then creating a very big issue out of it. 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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