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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo",
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, these forms of latent violence are there and we cannot deny it; it is extreme. Of course, in my culture for example, we understand that it is expected culturally that the man should be the provider and most of the times we try but woe unto you if the roles changed. Hon. Speaker, I think as we debate this Bill and reach the Committee Stage we really need copious supplies of amendments to reflect the dynamism and the contemporary nature of violence that we have known. This is something that keeps changing. That is why many times I have looked at how Mr. Njoka of Maendeleo yaWanaume goes about his business. This is somebody who is recognising a real problem in our society today. Hon. Speaker, I remember sometimes in 1994, I was a very young engineer. I had just started my engineering practice and I was sent by one of my clients to go to Gatundu to look at the Standard Chartered Bank there; to check the electrical works. We came back very late at night. My friend insisted at about 11 O’clock that I had to drop him in his house in Buru Buru. So, I was wondering why it must be so. I offered to give him a taxi but he said no, please drop me. Hon. Speaker, when we went to Buru Buru we could see clearly that there were lights in the bedroom but we were standing out there. He was knocking and then unprintables came out from there. I had to say I was also there because this was a family which was known to me. The following day my friend confessed to me that if I had not gone with him to the house, he would have been beaten. These are things that are going on in our society. So, hon. Speaker, domestic violence is a reality but to try to make it look sexist, as if it only happens to women, it is wrong. There are also some very soft kinds of violence. For example, in our houses a lot of our female spouses like to follow the Mexican soaps. You go home and want to also watch another programme and the remote is in their hands and this brings friction. These are the realities of our times and there are people who have been denied some important things just because they wanted to change the channels so that the Mexican soaps cannot be watched."
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