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    "id": 506622,
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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",
        "slug": "christine-oduor-ombaka"
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    "content": "Please, give me a chance to speak. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, can you keep the House quiet? Tribalism has been associated with insecurity in this country and that has been known for a long time. Today, it is developing a new face. We are going through other forms of insecurity that were never there before. Today, we see gender- based violence that is prominent almost on a daily basis. Nobody is dealing with is, no policeman is in sight to protect the women and arrest the perpetrators. When we talk about women being stripped in the streets, this is a new form of violence. For a long time, there has been sexual abuse going on in terms of rape, but the kind of violence that we see today is a demonstration that this society is really getting itself into a state of lawlessness. If we cannot protect the few women; so far they are about five, if you cannot protect these women, then how can you protect other people? These women have been stripped in public in the eyes of the whole world. When you see the video that I saw this afternoon inside a bus and the people in the bus cannot take action, then something has gone wrong in this nation. Nobody is going to protect you. Even if you talk of the village security people and ten villages protecting each other, what can that do when inside a bus people are watching when a lady is being violated? We have lost our responsibility. We no longer have any values. The whole world is watching and laughing and the country is moving towards a state of hopelessness. The police officers who should protect us cannot do it. We talk of them having no salaries, living in poor conditions, but they are very immoral. One of the four women that were stripped, if I recall yesterday night, one of the perpetrators is an Administration Policeman. A policeman was one of the perpetrators. Police are known to shoot to kill. What sort of culture is this where the police who should protect the society are the 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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