{"id":978383,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/978383/?format=json","text_counter":98,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr.","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":13156,"legal_name":"Mutula Kilonzo Jnr","slug":"mutula-kilonzo-jnr"},"content":"Mr. Speaker Sir, I must confess that it is the first time for a long time – and it is good to be alive at this time – to hear that there is a certificate that exists in Kenya that requires a lady to show whether she is a virgin or not. It is truly a good time to be alive. If that is a tradition, that tradition is unconstitutional by virtue of the 2010 Constitution. That requirement is a violation of the right to privacy under this Constitution, and it should be declared as such. I am not even sure why you require three years – a declaration and a Statement from his House is enough to say that one cannot ask--- In any event, I do not know whether the registrar has any mechanism of proving that, that fact is existing or not."}