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    "id": 1009994,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nyatike, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Tom Odege",
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        "legal_name": "Tom Mboya Odege",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I also want to add my voice on the same and support the Report of the Departmental Committee on Labour and Social Welfare on gender and gender related issues. I agree with the Mover of the Motion that gender is not only for females or males. In our country, when we talk about gender, we only refer to our ladies. Way back in the 1980s, when you talked about pension in the Public Service, women were not privileged enough to be paid pensions. When we go to our domestic lives, especially in the rural areas, you find that the boy child is given more preference than the girl child especially when it comes to inheritance and issues related to education. Although nowadays we say that the girl child is more empowered than the boy child, it is still not the reality on the ground. My daughter may be watching me right now. She knows me as a traditionalist, but today I want to surprise her by supporting the girl child and say that we must give space to our ladies all over so that everybody regardless of gender can feel part and parcel of this nation. They can also rise and get their rightful share at the family and Government levels. That space is given to everybody so that people’s rights can be achieved without any hindrance. However, this one can only work if we have an enabling environment to have our girls compete favourably without fear or favour. A majority of the laws that we have written and the policies that we have rolled out have a major challenge in terms of implementation. We may have very good documents like the one we are debating, but if there is no force behind it, I can assure you it will form part of the files kept away. So, I urge us that after we pass this Policy Paper, let the Committee ensure that it is implemented to the letter. Whatever we are doing here is not just for the purpose of this House, but for the benefit of the whole country. I thank you and support."
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