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    "id": 249196,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/249196/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kembi-Gitura",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 242,
        "legal_name": "James Kembi Gitura",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir. I do not want to say that I was ambushed to talk because I see what our intention is. I think everyone here, two weeks ago, read a very sad story in one of our local dailies, about a dealer of illicit brew in Ukambani who wanted to frame an assistant chief as having raped her. Had her conscience not caught up with her, and had she not known that what she was doing was a very serious mistake, indeed, the assistant chief would have gone to jail, if the Act was in force, for a period of not less than ten years. The purpose of the proposed amendment is to capture the seriousness of the meaning of this Bill; that if, indeed, you seriously allege that someone raped you, you must be ready to face the consequences. If it is a framed story like it can happen, then the same consequences that would have applied to the alleged offender should take effect. That will deter, as much as the punishment will deter the acts of rape, attempted rape and defilement. The provision will also deter frivolous and malicious allegations against innocent persons. This is a very important amendment."
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