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    "id": 718738,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/718738/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Maanzo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2197,
        "legal_name": "Daniel Kitonga Maanzo",
        "slug": "daniel-kitonga-maanzo"
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to comment on this Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill (National Assembly Bill No.45 of 2016). I have looked at the whole Bill. My attention went to the Sexual Offences Act, 2006. Being aware that Hon. Florence Mutua has brought similar amendments to this and also considering all these miscellaneous amendments, the one on the Sexual Offences Act is quite substantive. In fact, it should have been a Bill on its own. It will be my proposal to the lawyers on the other side that this should be treated on its own. It is extremely sensitive. As a practising lawyer, I am aware there are very many people faced with sexual offence cases, especially defilement of high school children. You know by the time a young girl gets to 18 years of age, she has most probably left high school. The Bill proposes to amend the Sexual Offences Act to provide for the correct expression as in the words used in this Act. The Bill proposes to reduce the consensual age with regard to the offence of defilement from 18 years to 16 years. This is a big mistake. Somebody is sneaking this amendment so that an accused son of theirs or an accused person somewhere gets off the hook because defilement is a very serious offence. 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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