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    "id": 821913,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kitutu Chache South, FORD-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Richard Onyonka",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to discuss such an important matter. First, I would like to thank Hon. Jessica Mbalu who has worked tirelessly to bring this Motion to the House. The issue of trauma for the survivors of sexual and gender-based violence is a matter that we need to give the seriousness it requires. To a large extent, if you look at the daily newspapers and listen to the radio, sometimes, you wonder whether we are in a democratic country that believes in law, equity, fairness and justice. It is important that we recognise that women have a very critical role to play in our country. Women are the custodians of our country. Our mothers and sisters are the ones who painfully take care of us by feeding us and making sure that we are taken care of when we are born. They are the ones who pass to us our culture from an early age until we become mature. To a large extent, because of our cultural tendencies, as Africans, we have ended up mistreating our mothers, sisters and aunties. I do not want trauma to be a matter to be exclusively aligned towards women. Recently, we had a mzungu man in Mombasa who was violating more than 25 boys. We must be able to set up mechanisms of dealing with such trauma. When a woman is violated physically, psychologically or whichever violation that takes place, once they are able to get out of that violation, they need to be taken through mental and physical health management until they are able to be brought back into society so that they can become useful members of society."
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