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    "id": 295974,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ms. Karua",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Martha Wangari Karua",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Chairlady, the reason this House should support the amendment by the Attorney General as it is, is that already we have sufficient laws. Anybody who gives false information in court is charged with an offence called perjury. Whether you accused somebody of murder, rape, defilement or any other offence, you will be guilty of perjury. If you lie to a police officer to cause them to act against any other person, you are also guilty of giving false information to a police officer. Section 38 of the Section Offences Act, as it stands today, is unconstitutional. It is subjecting those complaining of sexual offences to double jeopardy. Already, there are offences dealing with it. It is discriminating against those who complain of sexual offences, while all other complainants of all other offences are not being put to the same threshold. Let us think of our children and all the sexual predators who are lying loose; raping mothers and grandmothers and defiling and damaging children. I want to plead with the hon. Members that we have sufficient laws dealing with them. Let us allow this Section to be deleted and oppose Dr. Khalwale’s amendment."
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