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    "id": 224328,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Wamunyinyi",
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        "legal_name": "Athanas Misiko Wafula Wamunyinyi",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, coming back to the point, the issue of the girl-child is such an important one and we must all, as leaders, put our heads together to address it. I am sure that we should be able to achieve the policy of Education For All (EFA) if only the issue of gender equality is addressed not in terms of the spirit of affirmative action as is generally provided but specifically on education. Indeed, if we can push for this to be done, our girls will attain good education and get into our community as responsible people who are on equal terms with their male counterparts. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have had problems which the girls have been subjected to and some of these problems include what we often talked about; forced marriages. Sometimes in the early 1930s when my grandmother was getting married, women were taken away by force. Like in the case of my grandmother, Maria tells me that my grandfather and his colleagues just visited their home and carried her away. She was carried away and became my grandfather's wife. Then it was a normal thing. In fact, my grandmother, Maria, tells us how it was an experience that they took her away and she tried to cry but there was nobody who could attempt to save her. She finally became a wife through that process and it was then an ordinary thing for forced marriages. It is very unfortunate that as we speak now, some communities in Kenya are still in the 1930s that their girls are forced into marriage."
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