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    "id": 847023,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/847023/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Isiolo North, KPP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Hassan Hulufo",
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        "legal_name": "Hassan Oda Hulufo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this Motion. I support the Motion. Fistula is a very devastating condition for our women. As Members who have contributed have indicated, the statistics of women who have suffered fistula in our country is worrying. In fact, there are a number of socio-economic factors which contribute to our women and girls suffering that condition. In our areas, particularly in the pastoral areas, we have harmful cultural practices like Female Genital Mutilation and early marriages. When girls are married at tender ages and put in the way of child bearing – because their biological systems have not developed sufficiently enough to nurture the baby and facilitate delivery – they end up with that condition. Many of those cases go unreported. In fact, the statistics on fistula indicate that for every woman that receives treatment in Kenya, 50 others go untreated. Those 50 are the ones that are silent. Of course, it is a very humiliating and stigmatising situation."
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