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    "id": 1028613,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Navakholo, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Emmanuel Wangwe",
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        "legal_name": "Emmanuel Wangwe",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. On the outset, allow me to support the Report of the Departmental Committee on Labour and Social Welfare on Sessional Paper No. 2 of 2019 on the National Policy on Gender and Development. One thing worth noting is the achievement that is supposed to come with this Sessional Paper. When you look at the policy in totality, you realise the achievements expected, including the achievement of gender equality through creation of a just society where women, men, boys and girls have equal access to political, economic, cultural and social rights. This document is timely. It comes at a time when the country is in a political mood. It comes at a time when the BBI Report has already been accepted by the majority and is going to the people to make a decision. I want to emphasise that gender includes both women and men. If you look at the country today, the weaker gender is the female. But there are very good professional women who are ahead. We can take the example of this House where the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Finance and Planning and the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Health are woman and they are doing a good job. We want to see more women coming out. In this House, there is a lady captain - Captain Ruweida, who is one of the few good scholars we have in this House. Therefore, the gender issue should be addressed with a very good paper like the one we are discussing today. This Paper encourages growth in the sense that whereas today we are pushing the weaker female gender to rise, let the boy-child also be pushed in a similar way. If males in this House do not wake up, we are likely to be surpassed by the female gender by the time we get to 2032. I want to look at the proposed economic empowerment of our youth. The youth have been left behind. What are we doing to make them move? We have passed the access to Government procurement opportunity programme in the House, but when the youth submit their invoices for payment, they are not paid on time. That is why the BBI Report says that we should have a prompt payment Act. Sixty days should be good enough to pay invoices so that the youth can pay back the money they have borrowed from banks to do business. We are also proposing that the youth should have a forum where they can discuss their issues. When we were growing up, we had age sets. When you got initiated through circumcision, removal of teeth or whatever method of initiation, the youth enjoyed their own language. So, we have to give them a commission, so that they can discuss their issues. We need a youth commission which will be led by the youth who understand their own language. That is a good thing being proposed in the BBI Report so that we can move together with the youth as one. Kenya domesticates international treaties that we ratify in this House. We are a signatory to international treaties on women from various global fora. We want to respect those agreements. 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."
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