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    "id": 1373071,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kajiado County, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Leah Sankaire",
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    "content": "lives in love triangles. It would be wrong for us to be quiet in the National Assembly. It is good for us to raise our voices and ask critical questions surrounding the mysterious deaths of our girls. I am requesting that the issue of femicide stops being an issue of women. Let us make it an issue of the whole society. Girls are being killed and we know that those who are killing them are also our children. It is about time we started addressing this issue holistically. First and foremost, I would like to speak about the issue of reporting. The statistics we have heard of today are saddening. We have seen the number of children who have lost their lives. Unfortunately, none of the perpetrators has been brought to book. Every single day, we hear that the police are looking for the perpetrators so that they can be brought to book. Justice delayed is justice denied. Sadly, we are burying our children - beautiful girls who had a bright future. The saddest thing is that no perpetrator has been brought to book. It is disheartening to the families and the society to see a child having lost her life and the person who committed that crime is still out there. With the current trend, we may have serial killers going round the villages across the country. This is because if you kill someone today, they are buried and no action is taken. So, you can kill another one tomorrow. You will have the power to do so because nobody follows you up. We want to call upon the Cabinet Secretary for Interior and Coordination of National Government, the DCI, the Inspector-General (IG), and the ODPP to issue a statement on the pertinent issues we are raising today. In the last two weeks, I was hoping to see people being arraigned in court. Unfortunately, no one has been arraigned. They keep telling us that they are carrying out investigations. Some of the cases do not require rocket science to determine who committed the offence. We call upon them to issue statements and join hands with female Members of Parliament and the men here supporting us on the issue of femicide. Security is a fundamental right to every Kenyan. It is wrong for women to walk around feeling insecure. In as much as we have the responsibility of taking care of our security, it is a right of every Kenyan to enjoy security. When it comes to reporting, it is so sad that every time people go to report such cases, they are asked several questions. They are left wondering whether there is a right to security in this country. If you fall sick and go to seek medical attention at a hospital, I do not think the doctor will ask you why you are suffering from malaria or why you have contracted a certain disease. Unfortunately, some of those perpetrators have been reported more than once and nothing has been done. We want to ask that from today, reporting should be taken as important as any other issue in this country. You have the right to report and you should not be asked what hour of the night you were out or what kind of dress you were wearing. Men should also be cultured enough to know that when women dress, they do not do so for them. It is their dress their choice…"
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