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    "id": 409783,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/409783/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kangata",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1826,
        "legal_name": "Irungu Kang'ata",
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    "content": "Paragraph 21 provides that: “The media shall not identify victims of sexual assault or publish material likely to contribute to such identification. Such publication does not serve any legitimate journalistic or public need and may bring social opprobrium to the victims and social embarrassment to their relations, family, friends, community, religious order and to the institutions to which they belong.” Number one, this is poor drafting. I think in an Act of Parliament you do not provide for a reason. You just provide the rule. As to the reason, that one is something that is usually debated here in Parliament. Number two, I know of several instances where we have seen victims of sexual assault going on air to publicize themselves. The idea probably is to bring shame to the perpetrators. The idea is also to raise awareness on issues relating to sexual offences. We know of a wife of a professor who was purportedly assaulted. She went live on air. So, if we were to provide for this one, we shall be gagging the media who may want to highlight these issues. I think even today I saw something on Citizen Television of a victim of a certain assault, if I am not wrong."
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