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    "id": 251309,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Angwenyi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 326,
        "legal_name": "Jimmy Nuru Ondieki Angwenyi",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I hope that ladies can understand what I am saying today. I hope that the amendments being proposed by Mr. Muite will be put into consideration so that this can become a very good Bill. Take for example, Page 350, where the offence of rape has been defined. In the African society, it is a man who can rape a woman. A woman cannot rape a man. That is why I was saying that this Bill seems to have been plucked out from some western countries where women rape men. Be that as it may, the Bill only prescribes a minimum jail term of ten years and a maximum of life imprisonment. Whereas, if somebody commits robbery with violence or if he or she is found with a gun while committing robbery, he is sentenced to death. I thought the Bill would have proposed that somebody found guilty of rape be sentenced to death. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am saying this because two years ago, a friend of mine who is a retired police officer was having his retirement party in his house in the neighbourhood of Kisii Town. After they had concluded their party a gang of intruders broke into the house, held this man and went to his bedroom where his wife had gone to prepare the bed. They dragged this woman out where the husband was and gang-raped her. When they finished raping her, they inserted a broken bottle into her private parts. Those are the people that this Bill is proposing to be imprisoned for a period of between ten years and life imprisonment. They should be committed to death. If such a penalty were to be prescribed, then we would know that the Mover of this Bill is actually serious in tackling rape. Rape is a very bad offence. It is worse than robbery with violence. Therefore, rapists should be given maximum sentences."
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