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    "id": 286492,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/286492/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mrs. Kilimo",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Co-operative Development and Marketing",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Linah Jebii Kilimo",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, Njuri Ncheke, for seeing me. I want to support the Presidential Speech, more so because of the support that he has given to the girl-child of this country especially those who have been undergoing the female genital mutilation (FGM). I want to thank him for assenting to the Prohibition of Female Genital Mutilation Bill on 7th October, 2010. The Prohibition of Female Mutilation Bill will go a long way to ensure that the girls from the communities which practise FGM remain in school and as they grow into adulthood, they will lead much healthier lives. Secondly, in his Speech, he talked about the IDPs. I happen to be a Member of Parliament for a constituency where we have IDPs by the Government because of the issue of conservation of our water towers, namely, the Cherangany Water Tower. We have IDPs in Embobut and I want to thank the Committee of Parliament whose Members had to walk 20 kilometers into the forest and back, making a total of 40 kilometers, to go and see these IDPs in Embobut Forest. The President spoke about funds being set aside for the purchase of land. I hope they will use those funds immediately to purchase land for my constituents so that they do not live the way we lived during the colonial times, where people were put in holding camps. The place where the IDPs are staying is like a holding ground and they have been there for the last four years."
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