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    "id": 1373162,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1373162/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Irene Mayaka",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 110,
        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
        "slug": "john-mbadi"
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    "content": "to wake up again and slit the throat of a girl or cut off her private parts? Then, that, in essence, is not a normal human being. That is someone who either belongs to a cult, is a witch, or is an evil person. Those are people who do not even deserve to get jail time. They deserve to get the equal punishment that they administered to their victims. We also notice that there is much objectivism of women out there. They are described by how they are dressed or their bodies, which is unfortunate. Ideally, the first thing that you should see in a human being is what she can bring forth in terms of her brain resources. It should not be about what her body looks like; and you can do something with it. This is objectivism. One of the preventive things that we need to do is to go back to the elements of basic human rights. As a country and people, we need to remind ourselves that it is incumbent upon us to protect the women and girls of this country. As another colleague said, when you are going to war, the women and girls are never involved. They are always protected. Can we go back to protecting them? Gender equality is also about the fairness of how society approaches and deals with different people. We cannot be in a spirit where women and girls, as I said earlier, are seen as objects rather than as equal partners in what we do. As I conclude, today is Valentine’s Day. I want to tell the young people of this country, especially the young women, that when they go out on a date with someone they do not know, they should, at least, inform their friends where they have gone. They should make sure that someone keeps checking on them and they keep updating them on where they have gone. Even if you take an Uber, you should at least send its details to someone else so that he can know where you have gone. Secondly, I would also like to address the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), which always sensationalizes and gives us information on these issues. Can we get reports in terms of progress on actions taken against those perpetrators? Finally, to the parents of the young men in this country, please, let us teach them to respect...."
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