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    "id": 563331,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/563331/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "One of the things I find challenging in the Bill is that it does not provide for standardized training for private security. If they had better training on issues such as public relations among others, then a situation like the one that happened to Nancy Baraza would never have occurred. Many of us, especially women leaders, know how many times we are subjected to ridicule. We live in a very patriarchal society and it does not matter what position you hold. When you go before the private security, people carry on with their work with those kinds of notions. In such a situation, sometimes you get worked up as a leader and when you overreact, the country gets too heavy on women. I have said it before and I want to repeat that many times, we tend to be very hard especially on strong women. Increasingly, that is why we have seen many strong women under target recently. We have many men who are corrupt in this country, but when a woman is remotely mentioned, we get on very heavily on them like they are the ones who have invented corruption. I am not in any way supporting corruption, but I was just giving the example of Nancy Baraza as one example of the way we mistreat our women. I do not think I have even finished five minutes. Nonetheless, I support this Bill. I know we will not have enough time, but I would like to bring some amendments to the Bill and maybe, I will speak to some of the issues of concern to me when the Bill comes. I support."
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