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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, it will interest you to know that the average age of sexual debut for young people in Kenya is 14 years. At 14 years on average, our children are having sex. Things have changed because back in the days, sexual debut would be 16 or 18 years when people get married. I do not think the solution lies in imposing bans. As a nation, we should wake up. I want to talk about the Kenya Film Classification Board (KFCB). I do not know who appointed them to be the moral police of this nation. This board is anchored on an Act of Parliament that is completely outdated. The only other time you legitimately see the KFCB is when you go to the cinemas. I can bet that 99 per cent of Members in this House have not been to the cinema of late, with the exception of Sen.(Prof.) Anyang'- Nyong'o, who I know went to the cinema quite recently. When they are showing a movie, they put parental advice. I am sure Sen. (Prof.) Anyang'-Nyong'o watches Star Wars for obvious reasons. They put an advisory when there is a movie on television and that is where they make money. They cannot go ahead and purport to be the moral police of this nation. They have banned the Project X party. In fact, the grapevine is that it was a fake, a phony and a setup. The KFCB went ahead and banned it and the police were also roped in. They are banning Netflix. Those of us in Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (CORD) keep on saying that someone cannot stop an idea whose time has come. Like CORD, Netflix is an idea whose time has come and which cannot be banned through an edict like the way the KFCB is doing. In contribution to this Statement, I urge Sen. Gwendo to progress this so that it becomes a Motion which will then lead to amendments to laws that were used to set up some of the agencies that promote morality and uprightness in our young people in this nation. It should not end at the level of a Statement. Madam Temporary Speaker, allow me to share some experience in neighbouring countries. In Uganda, they still have some cultural practices. There is an institution called the senga, who is an aunt or an elderly person who takes a young girl under her wing and teaches her everything to do with being lady, a woman, a wife, a mother, a cook; including how to take care of the husband in the sitting room and in the bedroom. In Kenya, we lack such institutions. We need to have a national re-awakening and project to revive the Senga or to replicate the Senga movement. I am told that certain communities in coastal Kenya have similar arrangements. That is why you find that ladies coming from the coastal part of Kenya - not all of them but some of them - have got a higher level of fidelity and are much more excitable to their spouses."
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