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    "id": 485379,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/485379/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Pukose",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Robert Pukose",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker. I know Millie knows that we love her and we love our women and we are patient and we are kind. However, the issue is quantifying issues of emotional love or emotional violence. How do you quantify this? When the Committee proposes to make amendments on that, I think it is in the right order because we do not want this Bill which is meant for the good of the family to be injected with activism that will derail the good spirit. Hon. Speaker, speaking to men out there and more so men in rural Kenya and considering the backgrounds where some of us have worked, we have seen children with what we call battered child syndrome coming to hospital having been beaten for just a trivial issue such as loss of Kshs10 or Kshs20 and those kind of things. There are cases where a mother has left behind a child and the husband marries another woman. The child is then mistreated. He is denied food and is even beaten. He is made a domestic worker. This is very unjust and inhuman. One time I was watching a movie with my young son. In this movie, one of the children is asked to kneel down so that one of the men can sit on his back to feed. This young man in my house told me, “Daddy that is child abuse”. This is what we want to prevent. We must act responsibly and take care of those who are under our care. That is what this Bill tries to address. We have seen cases in our African tradition where once a man has paid dowry"
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