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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": " And in their excitement, he touched her genitals and nothing beyond that, he goes in for ten years. Do we want a law like that? This kind of law will only end up destroying our society. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, this Bill is even destroying the basic tenets of social life of courtship. How does one get intimacy without courtship? Clause 23 reads: \"Any person who undertakes any unlawful, unsolicited, unwelcome sexual advances or requests for sexual favours is guilty of the offence of sexual harassment.\" How do you know that the advance is unwelcome until you make it? If you make an advance and the person says no, the matter ends there. Why should this become criminal? We all have a responsibility to pass good laws. But this is not a good law. April 27, 2006 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 803 Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, Clause 26 reads: \"A person commits an offence if:- (a) he or she intentionally exposes his or her genital organs. (b) he or she intends that someone will see them and will be caused alarm or distress.\" Where I come from, women and men go to bathe at the river and they expose their genital organs. What we are saying in this clause is that if you are walking by the river and you see a naked man or woman bathing, you can rush to the police and say you have been caused distress, which will earn that person two years in jail or a fine of Kshs50,000. Is this the law we want to pass in this House? We have seen the Maasai. When they are walking against the wind, their shukas fly off and their genitalia is exposed. Does anybody who sees them and gets distressed run to the police? These are the things we are talking about."
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