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    "id": 295989,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kimunya",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Transport",
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        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Chairperson, it is important that the hon. Members appreciate that when this amendment was brought in this House – and it is important to use institutional memory – it was the deal breaker in terms of the passage of the Sexual Offences Act. This is because the Sexual Offences Act came with some very severe penalties and handling of people who have been accused and the hon. Members said that we are exposing either men or women to anyone they disagree with. There was even the issue of chemical castration. As a result, when we sat in this House, we said: “What is the only safeguard available for people who use this law maliciously to get other people to suffer, when they have not committed those offences?” I know that the issue of perjury has been brought in and it is important that we appreciate that unless and until a similar"
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