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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to add my voice to this Motion by Sen. Crystal Asige, on femicide cases. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir I did not know that to love is a crime. Girls who love handsome young men are killed simply because of loving them. Women who have left their fathers and families to marry men in this nation are killed for loving their husbands. It is sad. That is why, if you have noticed, all female legislators are in black today because we are mourning. We are not celebrating this Valentine’s Day. Looking at this issue keenly, as a country, we have a problem. Family values have been left behind. That is why, we have problems. If only society would hold dear family values, people would learn how to relate with one another and themselves from home. Family values will give people priority and men will know their lanes. If only as a country, we treasured and got back to practicing family values. As a country, the societal fabric is broken. That is why, there is so much evil in our society. The killings that we are experiencing are not normal. How would a person in his right mind dismember a woman that he had gone with to a room to make love to? It is sad. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I will also associate this increase of femicide cases to hard economic times. Allow me to speak to our youth in this nation. If you are jobless and you do not have money, you will not get money by killing. If you do not want to take responsibility, it will not pay you to kill a woman. Please, stop killing. Try to work hard. At this point, I request the Government to make sure they do not just speak or make a cosmetic promise. Let us have jobs for our young people so that they can feel like men enough to entertain women, treat women and take their responsibilities at home and in society. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I speak to the women in this nation. It is good to be loved and to love. It is honorable to be married. However, if a woman is in a marriage that is not working and violence has started existing in that marriage, please leave. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it is better to leave alive and go to live alone, struggle and make life work than to stay in an abusive marriage that will lead to your death. Please, allow me to speak to young girls. Struggling and living a life of poverty is not a curse or a crime. Work hard and your time will come. Do not go for easy money because it is good to be alive, to live, struggle, get your own money and a job than to rush into your death. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I am not happy with the way our men legislators have walked out when we are discussing such an important matter. How I wish every male legislator will look at women as their daughters, sisters and mothers. They may look down on their wives anyway, but they should look at women as their daughters, sisters and mothers. Your wife may be your companion---"
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