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    "id": 441796,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Mathenge",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 77,
        "legal_name": "Esther Murugi Mathenge",
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, I really want to commend the Leader of the Majority Party because. When I was in the former Ministry in charge of gender I was with my able PS, Hon. (Prof.) Nyikal, and this was our agenda. One of the issues that we found out, and which needs to be looked at very carefully was that we would collect girls and take them away in December when this heinous act was being undertaken; unfortunately in January the girls had to go home for school fees and the parents would be waiting for them. If the parents did not catch up with them, they were taken to hospitals. So, we need to be very serious about this practice. I think we need to talk to Hon. Angwenyi and show him one video that men were shown and they wept. They said that if that was what their girls were going through, they did not want it done. Every man who saw it shed a tear. It is not normal for men to cry but they did when they saw what a girl had gone through. In Pokot, every first-born of a woman in most cases dies because of FGM. This is because the way they do it is so horrendous that even the passage of the child is interfered with. So, please, men, take heed; take care of your girls. I do not want to go into the details of what it does to woman because I did so; there are young people here who may not want to hear what I want to say. But the value of that thing that is cut--- I mean, there is no joy in what a woman is supposed to enjoy in her life."
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