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    "speaker_name": "Makueni, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Suzanne Kiamba",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I wish to support this Motion with few a points. First and foremost, I wish to thank Hon. Mohamed Ali for bringing this very generative issue that has actually taken the attention of our country and us, the Legislature. Every time we go out, we try and learn from the best practices. Where this practice has been going on, all we see is darkness. Countries that practice this are trying to sell the vice to us. What is there to copy? What we see are broken families, empty churches with nobody who believes in morality and wellbeing of society, depressed individuals who are staying in houses with dogs trying to babysit them and women who do not want to get married. When we have people with the idea of bringing this to our countries, and Africa in particular, what is in it that they want us to borrow? We believe in human rights, but they are there to build people and societies. When people bring us what they call their own rights yet they are there to destroy our society, we wonder. Our Constitution is very clear. I think we are giving them a lot of airtime. If I was in position, this topic would not be discussed anywhere because negative publicity is also publicity. The kind of airtime we are giving this kind of topic is a lot for us, Africans. Secondly, the kind of diseases we are having in this country are unique. I attribute some of these issues to some of these practices. When I was in secondary school, we were told that you cannot use a tissue paper if you are a girl and wipe yourself from your behind to the front. I believe this is what our boys and girls are learning in schools. Any time you use a tissue paper as a lady, you have to use it from the front all the way to the behind. This is not a matter of tissue paper; people want the entry and the exit to be the same. That is why we have unique diseases that are resistant to drugs. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I think it is very much in order that this particular Motion is finally discussed and dispensed with very fast. The more we give these people time that this is an issue, we are giving them a plus. It is very sad because we are talking as if this issue has come to our country now. However, we have discovered that it has been here. I have listened to one of us talking, and the kind of issues that have come up are very disturbing. It silently shows that this disease might have silently creeped into our schools. Apart from the idea of wanting to stop it, we need to carry a thorough investigation in schools and see how we can have serious awareness to address these concerns before it grows in bounds and becomes difficult for us to control. I support the Motion and I think we do not need to give them airtime in Parliament. Thank you."
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