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    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti South, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Kiarie",
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    "content": "I would not want us to waste this opportunity as a House to make it a session of lamentation. It ought to be a session where we decide what we have to do going forward. The act of killing is the final act in a long trail of things that happen before someone premeditates to kill an individual. It all starts with a thought. It starts in the mind. Judging from what we are seeing, we would not be wrong to say that ours is a very sick country. If you want to verify that, log on to social media and look at the conversations that are happening on the interwebs. You will see how nasty and toxic this country has become. An individual will set upon another individual that they know nothing about and tear them down on social media. That tells you about the mental state of this country. Before we began killing our women and girls, we started out by being an extremely mentally sick nation. As we seek a remedy, we will need to have a conversation on the mental health of this country. What is our national psyche? We will need to seek innovative approaches. The approaches can be supported by emerging technologies. Currently, we do not have any data that indicates who those killers are and what signs we should look out for in an individual who is predisposed to be a killer. We need to seek some innovative approaches. There is also the element of toxic masculinity. The power and strength that men have been given to protect their women and children is being misused. We must ask ourselves who the killer of women will be in 2030. Who is that young boy we are bringing up? What conversations are we having around the boy child? The boy child that we are bringing up today might end up being nastier than the men who are killing today. Allow me to conclude by saying that if we draw a dichotomy between men and women and point a finger at one gender, we will be doing the nastiest thing because we need that man to be the protector of girls and women. We need to bring up that boy who will sing that song of Solomon. Hon. Temporary Speaker, you are a poet and you know how Solomon celebrates his women. On this Valentine’s Day, we want to bring up that man who shall sing like Solomon and say, “Who is that young woman? She shines like the dawn. She is as pretty as the moon. She is as bright as the sun. She is as awesome as the stars in the sky.” That is what I see when I look at a woman."
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