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    "id": 252090,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Khalwale",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for East African Community",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 170,
        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Spekaer, Sir, some of these professionals are called upon as a life-saving measure to do what is tantamount to defilement. For example, we have children who are born with a very tight hymen and, therefore, when they start menstruating the parents come to the doctors complaining that their child is pregnant, the abdomen is distended and when we examine, we find that the menstrual flow has been coming every month and accumulating because there is no let out. So, the doctor aggressively takes a knife and actually \"opens\" the child. If you do not protect him, an ignorant and mischievous mother who finds that the child is not reported to be a virgin by the bridegroom would accuse you for having actually defiled that child, and this is why my thoughts are provoked on this one. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to mention something about Clause 16 which which is on page 359. It talks about child pornography. On this issue of child pornography, we must have at the back of our minds our performing artistes. You know that in this country, unless the law states otherwise, we have special shows where the performing artistes actually deliberately expose themselves. So, if a child, for example, who is truant, finds himself or herself in a discotheque, for example, where there is a striptease, the person who is performing a striptease is likely to go to jail if this child reports to the police. The owner of a media house who runs a television show, and you see them in your houses like on East Africa Television (EATV), where young girls gyrate their hips and what-have-you, will go to court and end up in jail if this law is passed. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to mention something about Clause 20 which is on page 364, and it talks about incest by male persons and subsequently by female persons. My fear about this Clause is that what we call incest in Ukambani, Luyialand, Luoland, if I may be allowed to use ethnic names since they have not been outlawed, might not necessarily mean the same thing as what you call incest among the Somalis."
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