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    "id": 485339,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Kanyua",
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        "legal_name": "Priscilla Nyokabi Kanyua",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, we indeed have very good women in Nyeri who stay married and do not beat their husbands. If any of those women are available then this Bill will also take care of them and stop any violence in our families. In the Committee, we had very interesting discussions on African families. It was really regrettable that we have men in our society who think that it is African to beat your wife. There is nothing African about that. Our African cultures actually protected their women. The reason why we are here 1000 years after the discovery of man is because Africa protected women. In fact, in most African communities, it is the mother that speaks. It is a matriarchal society. So, it will be very wrong in debating this Bill to impute that it has foreign elements or aspects. There is nothing African about beating wives in this continent. It is purely criminal and that is what this Bill will be doing. It will be putting criminals where they need to be put. Husbands are not criminals. Husbands are good men who speak to their wives when there is a problem and they do not use violence. There must be no time that a husband feels the need to express himself through violence. That is what this Bill will be saying. It says that you can express yourself but not through violence."
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