{"id":821895,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/821895/?format=json","text_counter":108,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Nyeri Town, JP","speaker_title":"Hon. Ngunjiri Wambugu","speaker":{"id":13460,"legal_name":"Martin Deric Ngunjiri Wambugu","slug":"martin-deric-ngunjiri-wambugu"},"content":"As a community and society that is progressing through democracy, I want to focus my attention on how we politick. When we think about gender-based violence, a lot of us tend to be biased towards violence against women. When you look through a lot of the Acts that have been passed, a lot of them are biased towards women. Most of us behave well in society because there are consequences when you behave badly. First and foremost, even as we look at the establishment of setting up post-trauma care centres, it will be important for us to look back into the laws that exist on what we do to people who are involved in gender-based violence. I will talk about cases that we have had. We had a couple of cases of ladies who were attacked and beaten in Nyeri sometime back and this was recorded on video. You realise that a lot of times, in such attacks, people are asked to sit down, talk and sort it out. That removes the fact that a lady or man has been assaulted. It does not matter that you will sit and agree to move on. The reason for this Motion that has been moved by Hon. Mbalu is that people should look at what happened to the person who was assaulted. I am talking about the loss of dignity, the embarrassment and humiliation. Those issues can be sorted out not only by the trauma centres, but also by implementing the laws that speak against people who assault others. It is one thing to take a person for therapy in a trauma The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."}