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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Fathia",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Mahbub Fathia",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I want to add to this Bill. This Bill is very important and I support it. This Bill is very important because there are cases of sexual offences in all our counties. We do not know how to address them because there is no law in place. In the upper classes in primary schools, we need to introduce sex education lessons so that students are taught what happens. There are cases where some young girls are raped and cheated by their classroom teachers who give them sweets and lie to them and most of them do not know that the repercussion is getting pregnant. We need to pass this important Bill. We need to educate our young students. Nowadays, there is Facebook and social media and they will learn many things including pornography through pictures and videos. We need to teach them very early. We need to talk about it. These are not the old days when we hid those things from our students. We need to have a police unit that is trained to handle these cases. Whenever those young girls who are victims are affected, they do not know how to talk about it. When they go to police stations, the kind of questions they are asked--- Some of the police ask: “ Umekuja kufanya nini?Kwani ulikwama? Ukishikwashikwa kuna ubaya gani ?” You need to know that those are young girls. Even if it is an old woman, she has rights. She is the one to allow someone to touch her or not. We should have a separate police unit. We also need to have some units in the counties and special departments to handle such cases, otherwise, things will get out of hand. We even see in the media and on television many girls who have been raped by their teachers who cheat them. Sometimes, we need to teach our young girls how to dress. Sometimes, you find your daughters seated with their father and uncles in the living room while in very tight skirts. You know men are men. They do not realise that those are their daughters or nieces. Sometimes, as parents and leaders, we need to talk about this either at home or in school. Lastly, we need to have a law in place so that we know how to curb this. How do we go about the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill so that those things can be counterattacked? Things will be happening rampantly. Many victims are ashamed. They cannot report matters to the police just because they do not have an upper hand. People do not know how to handle those cases. I want to stop there. I support this Bill. We should look into this urgent matter in the country."
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