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    "id": 512918,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mule",
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        "legal_name": "Stephen Mutinda Mule",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. First and foremost, I want to congratulate my colleagues for a job well-done. For the first time, we are looking at a law which protects all families within the country without discrimination against any gender. Secondly, it is a law which is long overdue in this country, during this Century. We need to look at the country from the family perspective. This is a law which will sort out a lot of problems. It is a good day especially for all family members in this country to know that they need to adhere to the rule of the law. We are not going to allow families to be ruined because one thinks that money, power and intellectual-- We have to stick to the rule of law in this country. I want to congratulate this Parliament because most of the Bills passed touch squarely on the common mwananchi ; the local person mashinani . It is important that we keep up with this spirit to make sure that we move this country forward, despite issues of politics which is our profession. This country must move forward. For the first time, we can assure families in this country that this Parliament has a duty to protect them. We have achieved it at this hour. I request all Members of Parliament to support this Bill in its totality to make sure this law is implemented. I kindly ask the Chairman of the Committee on Implementation of the Constitution to make sure that he picks up this law like yesterday and make sure all that needs to be implemented is done. We need to ask the relevant authorities to come up with very clear policies based on the laws which we have passed. We should not waste our time in this House making good laws and then issues of policies deter implementation. People should not hide behind curtains. We do not want to make a law then it goes straight to the shelves and is not implemented. I would wish to see this House rise to the occasion within the next three or four months. If the law is not implemented, we suspend the business of this House and make sure that it is implemented to the letter. We are not going to threaten anybody, but we make sure that laws made here are not just put on the shelves. It is important to note that there is no way we will have a nation if families are not protected. This nation will not be at peace when families are not protected and educated, but are left suffering. There is no way this country can move towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) or Vision 2030---"
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