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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Shakeel",
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        "legal_name": "Ahmed Shakeel Shabbir Ahmed",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I stand to support this very timely Bill. It is an offence to women kind. It is a sin to God who created the body. The Sheikh has talked about the Quran and I will not talk about much more. The traditional society has always wanted to subdue the woman either in form of slavery or via the FGM. The FGM is a form of slavery. The FGM has no place in any society, whether modern or traditional. Any human being who allows this sort of thing, and denies a woman the wholeness of her body needs crushing. It is unhealthy and involves possibility of HIV infection. The culture of the nomadic tribes, as Mr. Duale has just told us, was probably picked up from Egypt. We know there are many developments that we got from there, but we also know that there are very many problems we have inherited. So, as a historic wrong that has occurred, it is very important for Kenya now, especially for the North Eastern Province and our nomadic tribes--- I stand as an adopted member of the Maasai community, and I have seen how women have had to suffer the pain of the FGM. I know a number of girls whom we have actually had to go and rescue from this practice. However, when you do that, they are then thrown out of the society. That is another problem that we have. Once you pass this Bill, we must have an education programme to make cultural change part and parcel of its implementation. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, the Luo community which I represent was one of those which were vehemently opposition to circumcision. They said it is not in their culture and there is nothing they can do. However, when leaders and the general society put it in a mild manner and showed the benefits, even the Luo, as difficult as they are when it comes to culture, have agreed to be circumcised. We do not need any European to come and tell us about Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). We know its bad effects, and we must move forward, inform and help change society."
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