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    "id": 472865,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng) Gumbo",
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "Thank you hon. Speaker. I thank you, indeed, for giving me an opportunity to contribute to this Bill. A lot has been said about protection to the victims of crime, but I have just been having a word with hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona. In my view, if we are to talk about victim protection law, it needs to be wider than this. I am saying this becaue we live in a society which has real issues. A lot of times people become victims not necessarily of crime, but because of the way we go about our societal issues. I think, perhaps, as we go forward, and, maybe, if it is possible to accommodate it at the Committee stage, I think the Bill should be made more encompassing because victimization really comes in very many forms. One of the things that I think we should talk about is issues to do with societal prejudices. You will see cases where people actually suffer even psychological victimization, social and even cultural. I went to a school which was multi-tribal; I and people from my community became victims; even small children would call us children just because our cultural beliefs did not allow us to do certain things; so, in their eyes we were children. We also have cases where people suffer on a daily basis, merely because of their personal and religious beliefs. Recently you heard the story of the poor lady in sudan, who suffered merely because she chose to marry the love of her life who happened to profess a different religious faith. Not even that, I remember as a young engineer practicing here in Nairobi, I became a victim merely because of my educational background. In those days many people who were calling themselves engineers were actually technicians. So, for that some of us joined the engineering profession with university degrees, we were hated; we were not even allowed to enjoy career progression merely because those people felt threatened. Even natural ability was an issue. I remember a certain time when a complex problem that needed a firsthand solution arose; an older engineer who was sitting across me wanted to take a longer route and I thought there was a better way to do it. I offered a solution which seemed to impress everybody. The next thing I knew was that I was being threatened on account of what I thought was just the fact that I had ability which my colleague across the table time did not have."
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