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    "id": 896574,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/896574/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 376,
        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
        "slug": "millie-odhiambo-mabona"
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker for giving me this opportunity. From the outset, I support the President’s exposition. I want to focus especially on the issue of the treaties that the country has ratified such as the convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women and the convention on torture, cruel, inhumane and other degrading punishment. Even though the country has ratified the convention and also domesticated the same, we are very short on implementation. There are very many women in the recent past, especially young women, who have been killed. It is worrisome. Something needs to be done. It is not enough for us to pass international and national laws and yet our young women are being killed like flies daily. There is a problem in this country. I do not know what the problem is, but perhaps it is about learning violence. There is a report that was done in Zimbabwe that shows that in areas where civil strife was common, there were a lot of cases of violence. Kenya has gone through a lot of violence especially during elections. Violence is learnt especially when our police forces mete out violence against the Opposition and think it is okay. This is the consequence. In my constituency, the areas that were most violent especially in the place where I built my home, they burnt it down. Very recently, they were asking me to set up a police station for them because the same youth who were taught violence have turned against each other and their own society. They even cut the legs of a woman who was found on the streets. Beyond that, we need to look at the issue of implementation of those conventions. Members have spoken a lot about the issue of corruption. There are many attempts to politicise the issue. I support the President fully on the fight against corruption. I was shocked as I sat here listening to Members saying that we should not go to churches to talk about corruption and yet they are the ones who go to churches to talk about it. If you are serious about not talking about corruption in churches, do not go. I can confess I went to church with a group called “Team Kenya” and spoke about peace. If you want to unite the country, go to churches and speak about peace. If you are not corrupt, you should not be worried when we say we are dealing with corruption. Why are you afraid that we are talking about you? If you are not corrupt, do not be worried. I would also like to tell our newspapers that they are the ones that will make us lose the fight against corruption. They make the fight against corruption a joke. Last week, the Daily"
}