Francis Mwanzia Nyenze (Deceased)

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• 20 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Marital rape is where there is no consent. view
• 20 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I want to say that children suffer a lot in homes and most of those cases are never reported. Even women suffer everyday and especially rural poor women and it is never reported. If it is reported, it is to the elders and the chiefs and it dies out. That suffering has been going on for a long time and it has to be addressed. view
• 20 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, in most African societies, male domination has, sort of, distorted the way we treat women and this Bill comes in place to address those historical and cultural practices that have led those male-dominated African societies to this extent where people suffer in homes in silence. view
• 20 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, before I rose to contribute to this Bill, a Member seated next to me, Eng. Gumbo, was telling me that the other day, he had to take a colleague hon. Member of Parliament home because his wife could not open the door for him and yet, this is a National Assembly Member. view
• 20 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: So, we cannot trivialize such an important thing. If a legislator – someone so important has to be driven to his home so that his wife can open the door for him, does that not affect men and women? So, it is something that affects all of us. Let us face it squarely. view
• 20 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I just want to say this: The Government, through various surveys, has put domestic violence at between 44 per cent and 83 per cent. So, it is very common and I would want to say that the Bill in Clause 16 provides that the court may direct the parties to participate in counseling and reconciliation. view
• 20 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Sometimes, as hon. Makali Mulu said, some of those issues deal with our culture and traditions and when you introduce the western kind of law into it, it complicates The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 20 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: things. However, the best way forward would always be through such a mechanism whereby you can bring those parties together to reconcile and so on. view
• 20 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, in many African traditions, marriage is not between man and woman alone. It is between communities. We marry from you. You marry from us. We develop a relationship and marriage is not owned by two people. So, it has to be treated squarely, taking into consideration those other underlying issues of culture and tradition. view
• 20 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I also want to say this on marital rape, because that is the only thing that I had a bit of concern about. But it can be addressed. Although hon. Members are saying that it is not there, but I think there can be marital rape if the wife does not consent or the husband does not consent. view