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    "id": 485392,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kajwang’",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2712,
        "legal_name": "Tom Joseph Kajwang'",
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    "content": "I want to talk for the people that I represent. I represent an electoral area that is politely said to be low cost neighbourhood; the Korogocho Slum, Mathare Valley and what you call Kariandundu and Gurukola. Those are names that you will not be conversant with until you face life squarely. Looking at this Bill, one gets the impression that it is a Bill whose time has come and needs to be supported. But I have been anxiously asking myself whether it targets the real problems in society that bring about the violence that we are talking about. I imagine that there is need for a legislative proposal such as this that is special to the issue that is able to arrest the problem in a specialized manner. It should be designed in a specialized manner with the kind of support that it needs in cases such as this and in the kind of society that we live in but it appears elitist. It appears urbanite. I am thinking about the person in Korogocho; the man, woman, several children, orphans and widows; some of whom sleep in a house, 16 of them, that is a ten by ten if they are lucky. The number of the people living in the house alone in itself is violence. It is not only violence to privacy but it is also violence to the spouse and the children. I am thinking of the conditions and the environment that they live through and whether a Bill that is designed in a penal way; whose narrative comprises “the police shall” “the court shall” and then penal consequences, protection system and so forth, is in itself a Bill that meets the desire of the people of this country. I know that there is a group of people in their thousands who are elite and urbanite that this will be a prescription. But for the thousands of many people, people called the slum dwellers, the people who are in the rural areas, are we thinking about the entire country? To what extent is this legislative proposal going to be appreciated by the people who make the law? Article 45 is good to operationalise because it speaks about the family and all of us resound to it because we are from some family. However, I want to suggest to 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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