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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this Bill. I will associate myself with the contributions of my colleagues, particularly Messrs. Kembi-Gitura, Kajwang and Muturi. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I laud hon. Ndung'u for bringing this Bill. But I would say that it is absolutely dangerous for us to pass this Bill in its present form. We have Members in this House who come from the Somali community. There are some who live in my constituency. I know a case where one young man is married to a daughter of his aunt. The father of the boy is the brother of the mother of the wife. If this Bill is passed, they will go to jail because they would be 802 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES April 27, 2006 committing incest. This is something we have lived with in some of our communities and it is not an affront to their culture. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, on Monday, there was a seminar on this Bill at the Safari Park Hotel. Unfortunately, due to pressure of work, I did not participate fully. But there was something amiss with the seminar. If you called hon. Members of Parliament to a seminar to discuss and appreciate a Bill, you do not start by giving them frightening statistics. \"As we speak, a woman is being raped.\" \"As we speak, ten have been raped.\" That is the wrong way of going about things."
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