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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Emanikor",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Joyce Akai Emanikor",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker. I rise to support this Bill. With all due respect to my two leaders who have spoken, they are welcome to bring their amendments. It is not like this House is fighting. There is a fight between men and women and we need to identify the good things in the Bill. One of the good things is that this Bill protects husbands, wives, children, house-helps and relatives who live in that house. This Bill recognizes domestic violence as unacceptable and an injustice that needs intervention and redress. It is a good thing. It recognizes domestic violence as a social problem that requires interventions and deterrent mechanisms. Those are the strong points of this Bill that we need to build on. This Bill is anchored on the Kenyan Constitution. It is anchored on the longest Chapter of our Constitution; the Bill of Rights. It is anchored on Article 53 on the rights of the child. These are good things that we need to look at as families that we need to take care of. The Bill provides for special training for police officers on handling domestic violence and family-related feuds. In the past, and I know in my Turkana County, where we have many cases of domestic violence, most of the times, the police refer victims of domestic violence to the chiefs, who in turn collude with the perpetrators of domestic violence. This Bill gives the victim a right, be it the husband or wife, to choose who to lodge the complaints to, so that we can reduce the number of cases of people being scorned, mocked or being made fun of at the police stations. I wish to appeal to my colleagues in the House that we should look at the amendments that we want to move, the definitions that we need to make and the various forms of violence in this Bill and see what we can keep and what we can negotiate to remove. The Bill is good and I support it."
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