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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Dawood",
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        "legal_name": "Abdul Rahim Dawood",
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    "content": "operators. We have seen how people ride boda bodas . Sometimes you see three or four people riding on a boda boda, with a member of the opposite sex in the middle. Will such a scenario constitute a sexual offence? I do not think so because those are passengers who are moving from one place to another. It is not intended to be a sexual offence. I believe there are a few things that need to be addressed in this Bill. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, on punishment to be meted out to people who defile underage girls or mentally unstable children, we need to find a proper way of getting these people off the streets. The other thing I like about this Bill is the proposal on establishment of sexual offences report desks at police stations. There used to be such a desk at Meru Police Station some time back. Anybody who had been raped or indecently handled would go and report there. Unfortunately, it has since been removed. It should be put there permanently and be manned by specific officers to listen to complainants of the same sex since it is not just girls or women who are sexually abused. Even boys are abused by some people. Such boys also need protection. In a way, this Bill needs to be rectified during the Third Reading, if it has to go through. We should not let sexual offenders go scot free. If possible, I will propose harsher punishments than what is currently contained in the Bill. We need to get the people who take advantage of our young children put behind bars. We could even add provisions to address issues of pornography through this Bill. Our young children should be protected from pornographic movie makers. I know this has already been banned, but we should provide for harsher penalties for those who use our children to make pornographic movies. We need to bring up our children in a way that will enable them to become morally upright adults. With those few remarks, I remain non-committal to this Bill until it comes up for consideration at the Committee of the whole House. Thank you."
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