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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kosgey",
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        "legal_name": "Henry Kiprono Kosgey",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, Clauses 23 and 24 deal with sexual harassment and there are fears that this can be misused. However, if you read and analyse them, let me say that it will criminalise courtship. I believe it is possible to court without sexually harassing that particular person you are courting. In particular Clause 24 deals with sexual harassment by persons in authority or in the work place. When I was the Minister for Education, I was informed of a case where a head teacher had sexually harassed pupils and, in fact, impregnated all the 12 girls who were in Standard Eight and he got away with it. He made these girls useless in life just to satisfy his sexual appetite. We are saying that people like that head teacher should be punished severely. In fact, Clause 24 provides that he should be jailed for up to ten years. I think this is a short period of time. He should be jailed for life. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I think everybody knows that in the workplaces whether it is in the offices or institutions, women are perpetually sexually harassed. It is only that they are quiet on this matter. They do not want to say it but we can say it for them. So, I commend the Mover of this Bill. This Bill as I said is modern, forward looking, encompasses and covers a wide range of issues of sexual offences including child trafficking for pornography and sexual exploitation. We should protect our children. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have seen young girls who have been sexually assaulted and deformed by these deranged rapists being admitted to Nairobi Women's Hospital from various places. One feels like killing these rapists. For us to sit here and say that maybe this may cause sexual harassment or may cause this or that--- Even what has been said that it might lead to marital rape, I do not believe that there is such a thing called marital rape. If a man is in love with his wife, such a thing should never arise."
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