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    "id": 473700,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Chanzu",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 11,
        "legal_name": "Yusuf Kifuma Chanzu",
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    "content": "The biggest problem is lack of information because there is a lot that goes on, for example, in the rural areas and more than 90 per cent of the victims do not report their cases because they do not know what to do. There are children who are molested, women who are raped and men who are harassed by others in those areas and this is not reported because they do not have any avenue to report. In fact, there are very few cases which are reported on radio and newspapers. So, there is a lot that this Bill will help us to do and it should go hand in hand with Article 35(1) of the Constitution; that is access to information. When people do not have information on what to do then they do not know what should be done. So, we have got to put in place measures which can help us get these people to at least restore themselves, if not to a 100 per cent to at least some percentage. Recently, there was a murder case in Bungoma. I think all of you must have heard about a mother and her daughters who were murdered. This is because a certain man had been jailed and I was informed that he had suspected that the lady had implicated him in some criminal case. As a result of that he was jailed and the person gave a warning that when he comes out of jail, that woman was going to suffer. When he came out, I do not know whether it is true or not or whether investigations are going on or not, but this man came and murdered the woman and her daughters. They are buried in Vihiga. That is why we need to have enough information, so that people can know what to do. In the case of that lady, maybe it was not the same person who warned her, but when that happened a report should have been made to the police. But, again there is a big problem with the police The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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