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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kaluma",
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        "legal_name": "George Peter Opondo Kaluma",
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    "content": "everybody under the sun to have a benefit of this Bill. We want only a particular section of society in line with the need to protect the family to have a benefit. For example, if you talk about incest outside there, we are not interested in it so long as it is not within the family. But there is need for a further definition here, particularly of some offences. Hon. Speaker, hon. (Ms.) Nyasuna has not defined to this House what widow cleansing is. But in our culture, we believe that when a husband of a woman dies the wife becomes a widow. Therefore, for her to enjoy benefits in the world there has to be inheritance. Our tradition requires that the person to inherit you is not the first person to go into the house. You know what I am talking about, hon. Members. One gentleman will be moving from house to house and widow to widow in the village having carnal knowledge of widowed women. In our culture, and in my constituency in particular, we have one gentleman from hon. Ababu Namwamba’s constituency, who has had undue advantage in cleansing all our widows."
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