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    "speaker_name": "The Cabinet Secretary for Interior and National Administration",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, that is all I can submit. Thirdly and lastly, my good sister here, the distinguished Sen. Orwoba has asked about the gender desk. It is true that we have seen a recent spike in deaths related to gender violence. Our women, children and mothers and are being killed brutally by people, whether family members or intimate partners or neighbours, and that is worrying us. It is also true that we have had gender desks since 2004. Through the Speaker, I promise Sen. Orwoba, the House, and the country at large, that this is a good moment for us to revamp the efficacy of gender desks and also track the whole process and ensure that accountability leads to very harsh convictions for people who are killing our children, spouses and sisters; taking advantage of the innocent setup of the relationship between men and women in a family or social setup. I challenge Sen. Orwoba and all parliamentarians to help us, as a law enforcement body, develop a policy framework that can track this problem and provide a solution beyond just having a gender desk, where a woman can go and report crime. We should have a register and find ways of humiliating and embarrassing all these people in our midst who attack and kill our women and children by taking advantage of their proximity through relationships and family arrangements. I submit."
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