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    "id": 718262,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kang’ata",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1826,
        "legal_name": "Irungu Kang'ata",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to support and oppose some sections of this proposal. I support the idea to prohibit plea bargaining and collusion to sexual offences matters proposed in this Bill. It makes a lot of sense. Victims of sexual offences have been coerced in law courts to enter into some plea bargaining. I want to urge Hon. (Ms.) Mutua to provide in the Bill that there will be no nolle prosequi and withdrawal of any matter of sexual offence and to let the court adjudicate until the matter is finalised and determined by a court of law. That will make sense. Plea bargaining is a limited concept and if you expand issues of nolle prosequi where one tells the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) that you will have no power to enter nolle prosequi or that there will be no withdrawals by the complainant and that the matter will be heard and finalised by a court of law, it is better. I understand that your objective is to ensure that these people do not coerce victims to withdraw these matters. The idea of special units makes a lot of sense. Police officers should be trained on the area of rape and other issues. To strengthen it, you can provide that the people to man these special units will be trained in matters of forensic science because that is the area that we are quite weak on because we are unable to preserve evidence. I support the idea to have public education in national and county governments. I am strongly opposed to the proposal to provide sex education in our schools. I always pray for those who believe in a deity or God in this plenary. The idea of sex education has been a contentious issue in international fora. There has been an attempt by the UN to insist that schools should introduce sex education. Those of us who are religious have been opposed to that idea because of the following reasons: We believe that sex education in our schools is going to sexualise our young people and you will have a situation where young people enter into sex to experiment. That will create more problems instead of alleviating it. Sex education should be left to parents. We must know that these children have parents and guardians and the idea of thinking that the State knows what is better to their children does not make sense. The parents have the primary role of upbringing children. They have the mandate of providing education to their children on The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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