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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Mbarire",
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        "legal_name": "Cecily Mutitu Mbarire",
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    "content": "43 Tuesday 18th November, 2014 define decent dressing, then it can only come from this House. Remember what the mother of all laws – the Constitution says. It says everybody has a right to dress as they wish. So, let us not allow criminals to define dressing for the women of this country. I keep asking: When did women begin to wear miniskirts? Is it yesterday? Is it last Friday when the first incident of stripping took place? If you look at pictures of our mothers and sisters in the 1970s, they wore miniskirts that we cannot wear today and yet nobody stripped them. We must push for the law to be implemented. I want to tell the Inspector- General of Police and I can see they have already started arresting, that we want to see people in court. We need penalties and measures taken against those culprits so that we can deter any further stripping going forward. This, hon. Members, I want to tell you can happen to anybody known to you and it is very painful. Let us not play jokes about it. These are serious matters. It is very traumatising for any woman to through that. Any assault in public is traumatising. Let us protect and defend the dignity of the Kenyan woman wherever she is and whatever she wears because that is her right. With those remarks, I want to thank you, hon. Shebesh for finding it fit to bring this Motion. I look forward to the day the hon. Members will march on the streets and say no to these forms of criminality. Thank you."
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