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    "id": 718806,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wamunyinyi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 291,
        "legal_name": "Athanas Misiko Wafula Wamunyinyi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Hon. Rachel, my friend, we want to speak on this important Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill. I can tell you that in the past, miscellaneous amendment Bills that have been brought before this House, have been used to sneak in a number of undesirable legislative pieces which went through without Members’ knowledge. You can see even in the House right now, Hon. Rachel is asking the Mover to reply. There are issues here which must be corrected. Even if there are good proposals in this Bill, there are others which must not be allowed to go through, like the reduction of consensual age for sexual offences. How can you allow this kind of legislation? That you want to reduce the age of girls from 18 years to 16 years? Is this so that it can be said that any girl at the age of 16 years will not be said to have been defiled? Those who set this age at 18 years had good thoughts. They must have had something in mind. They had good reasons. I want to be told why somebody wants to change it now. What is motivating this change? What do they want to achieve? What do they want to realise? What is the goal of reducing this age?"
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