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    "id": 1028614,
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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": "That respect is being exercised through this policy. We want to tell the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Labour and Social Welfare that the Committee has combed through this policy well. It is a good policy. We need to embrace it so that Kenyan ladies, men, youth, boys and girls can live to see a better country than what we have had. This policy seeks to ensure that we have equality in education as per Article 43 of the Constitution. I was the Mover of the Bill that sought to eradicate examination fees for the Kenyan child in Standard Eight and Form Four. The Act provides that no child can be chased away from school because of non-payment of examination fees. Today, all Kenyan children enjoy the benefits of the law. That means that any boy or girl whether from a marginalised community or from the richest community, will sit for the same exam and compete. Education makes us equal. You may even find a child from a poor family defeating a child from a rich family. So, this policy gives us equality and helps us to shape the future of both genders. Let us not see any gender as being superior to the other. Finally, this policy addresses itself to the issue of marriage. We represent our people in the constituencies. A young man wrote me a message sometime back saying he was being chased away from his house. He is a lawyer like yourself, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, but he is a young man. He does not understand how to manage a family. This policy gives us the rationale to respect our women. We no longer have to rule a woman by a slap, otherwise, they will run away. If possible, all of us should be like 001. He does not have legs, but he is a very strong man elsewhere."
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