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    "id": 632690,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo",
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I wish to request my friend, Hon. Chepkong’a, to withdraw this amendment. I do not see what this amendment adds to this clause. When you say “promote positive traditional culture and not repugnant to justice and morality” you are running into an unnecessary legal conundrum. How do you, for example, define “morality”? I am seeing a trend in this country where we are trying to be moral policemen and policewomen and we are trying to go after something that is completely indefinite. Where my good friend, Hon. Omulele, comes from, it is very normal for people to have breakfast with bare chests? Is that immoral? Where I come from, it is very normal to walk bare-chested in the village? How do you define “traditional”? I request Hon. Chepkong’a to withdraw this amendment. I do not even know how you can enforce it. What is moral in one culture may be immoral in another culture. Let us make laws which apply to all parts of the country. When he says “promote positive tradition”, what is positive traditional culture? What is morality? We have to define what “morality” and “traditional” are. The way I know this country, we are running into unnecessary legal conundrum and this amendment is not necessary. I urge all Members that we remove this amendment."
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