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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Ojiambo Oundo",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Speaker, it is good that this Bill has come. I totally agree that the words used under Section 146 of the Penal Code are offensive, discriminatory and shocking. All my life, I have not come across any idiot or imbecile. I say so because I have been a teacher for a few months. Before I came here, I taught at the University of Nairobi and I have never come across an idiot or an imbecile. People have different levels of understanding and comprehending issues. We need to delete it. What does it mean that a person with mental disability cannot consent to sexual interactions? The reference to this is that any contact that happens that does not amount to rape, with a person with mental disability, will amount to an offence. This causes more problems than the existing definition. I request the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs to have a serious look at that proposal. We are criminalising consensual sexual interaction between a person of normal ability and a person living with mental disability. We need to get a clear view of it."
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