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"content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, there is then the issue of culture and in as much as we are talking about this Motion, I believe the time has come for us as leaders of this nation to really take leadership. Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) has been prohibited by law. Our leaders across the nation are not coming firmly. I do not know whether they will lose votes if they came out firmly to say this law must now be implemented. I do not know what would happen but really I believe time has come for the leaders of this nation, particularly Members of the National Assembly to get out there and insist that laws such as that are implemented. We still watch television and we see the “Beads of bonds” or “Bonds of beads”. You place a necklace with dirty beads on the neck of a girl and you mortgage your girl for marriage. We have leaders of this country sitting in the House and I hope no male Member of Parliament got a wife through such retrogressive cultural practices because if there were such, we would be moving the nation for a recall clause. It is terrible. I think these are the things we need to deal with like early childhood marriages."
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