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    "id": 1217860,
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    "speaker_name": "Rangwe, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) Lilian Gogo",
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    "content": " Thank you so much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I was having a little fever and almost gave up my chance. Thank you for giving me this chance to add my voice to the foregoing Motion. I want to thank the Hon. Member who has brought it to the Floor of the House. In the recent past, we have had many court rulings that are questionable. Among the recent ones, other than the one on LGBTQ, is the idea that upon divorce, couples should have matrimonial property divided according to how they contributed towards acquiring it. I was left asking, if we all pursue property as man and wife, then who takes care of the children? The women and men will go for property because they do not know what will happen tomorrow, and the children will be left on their own. The kind of judicial system we have in this country is adversarial to the extent that we have litigation undertaken before an impartial judge who is presumed blind, deaf and dumb. We have parties presenting their cases and depending on how they argue them out, a decision is made by the Bench. I wonder if we were ever friends of the court in this matter, as Members of the National Assembly, or any of our representatives. Once the matter has been passed, we are here condemning it and saying the judges did this and that. You realise there is separation of powers. We, as the National Assembly, must make laws, and the Judiciary must mediate upon disputes and make their own judgements. Have we failed as a House? This is the question that should rule us as we debate on this matter. Hon. Temporary Speaker, it is despicable that we are having and breeding a society where there is no direction for our children. When was the last time you told your son how to behave in front of a girl? When was the last time I told my daughter how to behave in front of a boy? We are busy looking for money, doing our own businesses, studying, and leaving our children to technology. We buy them the most expensive phones and they go to sites that attract them. They see men marrying men, and women marrying women or women kissing women and men kissing men. There are people who are enticing those young people to engage in those kinds of activities. Where is the role of the family in socialising our own children? Before we castigate the courts, what are we doing as a Parliament? In my language, they say and I quote: “ iblame ogwang’ to iblame nyaka gweno ?” It means: When the chicken leaves its chicks and they are taken away, it is asked why did you leave your chicks to be taken? The divorce rate in this country is very high. Where do we leave our children? Who will teach our children? We have people who are ready to sponsor those young men into those activities. Homosexuality is so rampant in our secondary schools. Do we have people who go to those schools to teach our children against it? Do we have people who openly talk about gay and lesbian relationships in our secondary schools, where we have our teenagers? We are here castigating the courts…"
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