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    "speaker_name": "Dr. Khalwale",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for East African Community",
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "So, you can see the negative consequences! 754 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES April 26, 2006 Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I do not want to lose the argument that I was talking about. The sister of your wife, if you are a Luo or Luyia, is your wife because you can marry her. According to the English, her daughter is your niece. So, if culture allows a Luo man in Ugenya Constituency who has never been to school or to Parliament, and then you take him to court when his wife has left or they divorce and he has met the niece; that is the daughter of his wife's sister, who he would have married if she was around, you will confuse this person. So many Luos and Luhyas will end up in jail and they will say: \"Where was Dr. Khalwale when this law was being passed?\" Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, Section 22(e) on page 366 defines the meaning of relatives. This part says:- \"\"adoptive brother\" means a brother who is related to another through adoption and \"adoptive sister\" has corresponding meaning.\" What they are saying is that if a girl in a home where a boy was adopted has a sexual relationship with the adopted son of that home, and this girl complains or the mother discovers; usually it is the mother or the father who discovers; they would then arrest this adopted boy and get him jailed for ten years over incest. We learn from the Bible--- I am not an authority in biblical issues, but we learnt from Sunday school that when Jacob was adopted in a particular home, he found two girls there, one called Rachel and another Leah. He actually got a wife. So, to support this, you are actually opposing God. With all due respect, I would like us to state that an adopted child is a visitor in the family. He or she is not a blood relative. If he or she chooses to establish a family, he or she can marry one of the girls or boys and settle elsewhere. We cannot prepare a minefield for these young people to go to jail. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to refer to Section 24 on page 368. This section talks about sexual offences relating to positions of authority. How I want this Bill to pass quickly so that those teachers and other professionals who make young girls under them pregnant can be dealt with! However, we should not allow this section to pass blindly. If it does, how about young lecturers at the universities who do not have wives? These are people who teach students in their 20s. What is wrong with those young lecturers going into courtship with those young adult women and making wives out of them? We have to carve the law to protect those young lecturers."
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