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    "id": 486681,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/486681/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nyenze",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1987,
        "legal_name": "Francis Mwanzia Nyenze (Deceased)",
        "slug": "francis-mwanzia-nyenze"
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    "content": "So, what I am saying is that the Government can try to reduce the cost of living through reducing VAT. Removing VAT from these goods, so that young men can take them to their families. Their wives will be happy, the men will also be happy so long as they can provide. Domestic violence will reduce. The cost of living is making many families break. Today, if you go to my village you see so many young people; they wake up early in the morning and go to the shopping centres just to sit there. Then you wonder why they do so. It is because it is dry and they have nothing to do. But, in the evening, the children and the wife will require food and they cannot provide. When they go home, they have no food for their families and themselves. They have nothing and still are required to perform their duties. It cannot work. So, it is also good for the Government to try and reduce the cost of living, so that these young people, where there is a lot of domestic violence, can provide adequately for their children. If their children go to school, let them afford good clothes, food and domestic violence will be reduced. Hon. Speaker, while concluding, I just want to say this, this Bill in Clause 6(5) requires the Inspector-General of Police to ensure development of procedures regarding matters under this Act, for example, training of officers to deal with domestic violence. We do not want police to go to people’s homes and police who are not trained to take advantage. They have to be trained. This Bill provides that you can report police officers who do not take action. If you report that you have been violated either by your husband or wife and the police do not take action, this Bill provides that you report him and disciplinary action will be taken against him. So, this is a very good Bill. Last but not least, there is this inheritance that they are talking about. Inheritance of property, widow, widowers and those kinds of things is something that this Bill captures. The Committee sat and exhaustively looked at these issues. Even as we contribute, it is good to look at what the Committee has suggested. If they did a good job, let us not try to destroy what they have come up with. I think they have come up with a very good piece of work. We should support them and we will protect Kenyans who are suffering in this country."
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