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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Raila",
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        "legal_name": "Raila Amolo Odinga",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, actually, he wanted to give me information. He wanted to tell me that, if the rapist is jailed for life, he cannot be able to provide for the child. Therefore, a provision should be made for the Government to provide for such a child until he or she becomes an adult. We have had cases in British courts about Kenyan women who were raped by British soldiers. The figure varies from 600 to about 800. Some of them were injured in the process because they were gang-raped. Some of them conceived and gave birth to children who are bastards. An application was made in the British court for the British Government to make provision for the up-bringing of those children. If this Bill is passed, the Government is going to have an instrument with which to deal with those offences. That must apply to everybody who is resident in the Republic of Kenya. That includes even a tourist who commits an offence of rape. There is a time when an American marine raped a Kenyan girl in Mombasa and strangled her to death. That American marine got a very lenient sentence at that time. We must make a provision that anybody who commits an offence of rape on the Kenyan soil must be subjected to the Kenyan law. The Kenyan law must take full force. If it is life sentence, then he must serve that. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to conclude my remarks by making an appeal to my fellow men here. Let us cast aside our biases. Let us not look at women as inferior beings. Let us not look at this Bill as a war between men and women. Put yourself in the shoes of your sister, daughter or mother, and then stand up here and speak for them! I want to tell those male chauvinists who want to portray this Bill as anti-men that it is not! Civilised men have nothing to fear. We must protect the society against those irresponsible men May 2, 2006 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 843 who have no compassion! The ones who rape a three month-old child or a 12-year-old child and, after that, strangles her to death. This Bill is so urgent that I want to plead that we do not defer it. Let us bring the amendments and I am sure all of us are ready to accept them. Let us deal with the amendments, but we should pass this Bill before we go for any temporary recess. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, at one time I used to say that I am a young handsome man from Kenya, the land of sunshine, where men are men and women are part of it. If these men are men, let them stand up and support this Bill so that it can be passed for the benefit of our society. With those remarks, I beg to support."
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