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    "id": 718206,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kipyegon",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1453,
        "legal_name": "Johana Ngeno Kipyegon",
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    "content": "I also wish to support the area where it is talking about the proposal on creation of important or special units in police stations where police officers who are supposed to be handling these matters must be people who are properly trained to handle sexual matters. Because of time, anybody can just handle the issue in the way they know, but the evidence that is meant to have been used in courts of law will have been lost. This can happen because the person who was handling that case could not have been somebody who is properly informed on those matters. So, I agree that we should create these special units in police departments so that we can have people who are handling these matters and who are specialised. Hon. Speaker, the question of awareness is also very important. It is important we have this education so that people who will be handling these matters know how we handle them. Also people who will be indulging in these sexual offences must also understand the consequences. Also, is the question of students versus students. You could be having in high schools a student who is a boy above 18 years indulging in sexual activity with a girl who is below 18 years. These young people do not understand that, that is defilement. It is not love affair. So, education is very important. It should be done in high schools and primary schools. There are parts which I tend not to agree with, especially the part you just mentioned - this idea of bodies meeting. Sometimes, these are accidents. Sometimes we have the problem of transport systems in our country, especially in these cities. Because of the problems like jams and lack of transport system, people tend to crowd buses and even trains. When you look at the train that normally comes from Imara Daima to town, you cannot just imagine. Maybe it is because it is cheap and it reaches town within the shortest period. People will not understand because the moment bodies meet, Hon. Speaker you know, there is that reaction. Sometimes you will not say it was intentional just because of that. Like you said, if the driver applied brakes, obviously, people must meet. You cannot avoid that. That is what we just meant. We should make a law that will not seriously affect even a situation which was very accidental. Another issue which I thought we should be looking at during the amendments stage, sometimes women report on matters of rape or defilement, but especially rape cases, and yet sometimes it is a situation where the two could have agreed and maybe an issue arose later and then it becomes a rape case. Serious investigations must be done so that it can be defined properly whether that was rape or it was just something which was agreed. We should also look at that seriously so that we do not allow other people--- There are some mischievous people. I know this law is intended to curb the question of this crime. Sometimes there are mischievous people who may take advantage of this particular amendment to do other things. In the society, we have people who have bad intentions. Sometimes they can use this law to meet those particular intentions. So, we must ensure that we pass a law that will allow proper use of this law. Lastly is the question of the person who could have been convicted for rape. Sometimes when somebody rapes somebody, that person could be health wise infected with HIV/AIDS or any other disease or that person is pregnant. How then will we ensure that person is taken care of? This amendment should be made in a way that when a rapist is convicted, they should also pay a certain fine to take care of the pregnancy of the child of the person who was raped and also to ensure that health matters of the person who was raped are taken care of."
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