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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Anami",
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        "legal_name": "Lisamula Silverse Anami",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker for giving me this opportunity. I would also like to thank my colleague Florence Mutua for bringing up this matter. It is a very important subject that we should discuss and revisit every now and then as legislators so that we can sustain the social fabric of our society. Some of these offences are very dehumanising. We should agree that they are not offences that we can tolerate in a society that is fast-growing and one that is as enlightened as the Kenyan society. In fact, sometimes you wonder because the situation earlier before we got into this modernity seems to have been better. People were more morally enlightened than they are now. It looks like we must examine and consider modernity and the changing social infrastructure. We know that these offences can dehumanise people who are affected. We know that it creates degradation of our cultural landscape. We know that it even causes death and sometimes even creates controversial lives that are very difficult to fit in the social landscape of our society. Sometimes we have to be careful with how we indulge because as many Members have stated, the circumstances surrounding these offences are an important component that we must consider when dealing with these offences. Hon. Speaker, when we discuss this matter from a cultural point of view, our traditional communities have indigenous infrastructural arrangements that manage the relationships between different genders to the extent that the issue of sexual relationships between people is a matter that is properly engendered in our social fabric. It will never come up as an offence and when it does, it is dealt with in a sustainable manner thoroughly to the extent that it does not affect continuity of society."
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