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    "id": 1373090,
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    "speaker_name": "Uasin Gishu County, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gladys Boss",
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    "content": "ensuring that this matter comes to the House. This challenge has been with us. It is only that it has recently received more attention than it had before. Many women have been killed. If you look back, we have been very slow in speaking out but this time round, we must not relent. We must continue to speak about it. I commend the Members of the National Assembly for making this commitment. If you recall, there was a lady called Ms. Chelele, a musician from Kericho County, who was killed by her husband – a police officer, who later confessed. Ms. Agnes Tirop, a World Champion athlete, was killed by her spouse or boyfriend in Iten. The person was arraigned but not much was said about it. In the same year that Ms. Agnes Tirop was killed, two other women athletes were also killed: Ms. Edith Muthoni who was also killed in the athletics camp by her boyfriend and Ms. Damaris Muthee Mutua, a world champion athlete who was also killed. The killings have been with us. It is only that we have not spoken about them. Hon. Esther Passaris, you have named the recent ones, but this goes back as far as seven years ago. We are not talking about people who are unknown but world champions. Ms. Agnes Tirop represented Kenya in the World Championships in Tokyo and a few weeks later, she was killed. To-date, the case has not received the attention it does. We do not see the media houses writing stories and putting them in the headlines. Part of the failure is with the media. If the media put such cases on the headlines every single day, the matter would get the attention it deserves. If the television stations put it on the headline news, it would get the attention it deserves. There have been no real consequences for killing women. If we make the consequences sufficient and tough enough, and bring it to a much higher attention, to the extent that when someone knows that it would not only affect them but also their families, they might think twice before committing such an atrocity. It has been normalised that people can speak negatively about women and get away with it. We saw that in the statements that were made against Hon. Kawira. That was rape and sexual assault, only that it was verbal. Sadly, we thought that it was funny. We must begin to interrogate our conscience as a country. I support this particular Motion with all my soul and spirit. Thank you."
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