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    "id": 485409,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Ombaka",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Christine Oduor Ombaka",
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    "content": "Thank you very much for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Bill. First, I am a Member of Justice and Legal Affairs Committee and we have gone through this Bill. I want to say that this is a good Bill that comes at the right time because every single day there is a family that has been killed; there is a Member of the family that has been murdered and there are so many deaths, so many killings going on at the family level. This Bill intends to protect Members of the family and to strengthen the family as a unit in society. I think it moves towards protecting the entire family so that we do not have too many divorces, too many people killed or any harm caused to any member of the family. The definitions are very good because first of all, they touch on certain harmful cultural practices such as Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). FGM could be a crime in a family set up. There is also wife cleansing, wife inheritance, early marriages, and these have been harmful cultural practices that have been very difficult to wipe out in our society. They are very sensitive anyway because they are part and parcel of a culture. When they are put in law like this one, or into a Bill that becomes law later, then these problems that have been there for many years will be dealt with. Secondly it is important to realize that the effect of domestic violence is not only on children but on everybody in that family. This Bill is gender sensitive. It takes care of everybody in that family including old grandmothers and grandfathers. Nobody thinks about protection against grannies simply because they are too old. People kill them and they have no respect for them. Again we see that there is too much violence targeting old people within a family. This is going to protect everybody irrespective of their age or gender. So, to me, this is the greatest Bill that is coming at a time when the society is at war with each other and 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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