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    "id": 224354,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/224354/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Mwiria",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Education",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 190,
        "legal_name": "Valerian Kilemi Mwiria",
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    "content": " Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, if you look at areas where girls have the biggest problems, they are in areas where some of these traditions we are talking about are practised. You cannot talk about equity in a polygamous institution because you are saying that one man is equal to three women. So, if the issue is about equity and you want to encourage it in those societies, it is very difficult for children of polygamous marriages of men and women who have grown up in those marriages to appreciate the fact that our women can be regarded as equal. Until we appreciate that, we cannot support their education, especially to do as well as the men. I, therefore, like to say that outside of education, we have to address those traditions, especially because it is in those communities where those traditions are most dominant that our girls have the biggest problem in terms of their participating in education."
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