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    "speaker_name": "Mr. M. Kilonzo",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am very grateful for that remark from my colleague and Senior Counsel, the Attorney-General. I must say that the House is very lucky this week in debating this Bill, because the Chair of the Departmental Committee on the Administration of Justice and Legal Affairs, Mr. Muite, is also a Senior Counsel. It is fair that I say this because they will agree that when lawyers want to be taken very seriously, they dress the way Ms. Ndung'u and I are dressed. Therefore, I will not be surprised if the Attorney-General is in this sort of deportment when he comes to contribute to the Bill. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the reason I opened my contribution with a light note is because what I am going to say is extremely serious. It is important that we take this Bill very seriously, indeed. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to start by giving you the statistics that have come to light in the processing of this Bill and through research. Surprisingly, between January, 2005 and now, a period of only 16 months, no less than 651 children aged between one and 15 years have been victims of rape. In fact, for the period from 2002 to 2005, the total is 996. The question I will continue asking as I second this Bill is: If this Parliament and this country cannot defend and protect those children, who else will?"
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