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    "id": 1028642,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1028642/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Molo, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kuria Kimani",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13435,
        "legal_name": "Francis Kuria Kimani",
        "slug": "francis-kuria-kimani"
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    "content": "If there is a way it can be implemented - even before we wait to see whether the BBI Report will pass or not - in the current budget for the Ministry of Public Service and Gender and the Ministry of Education, it can be good. I have been telling myself that when it was school-going time, the Ministry would provide sanitary towels to girls. During the COVID-19 period, I have not seen any ministry distributing sanitary towels. What happened? Do girls get their menses only when they are at school and not at home? We need to be very candid. These things that touch very closely to this gender must be well thought through. In 2020, we are still talking about girls who have been forced to undergo female genital mutilation. We still have elders and Nyumba Kumi leaders who are sitting in the villages discussing about 13-year-old girls who have been married to 60-year-old men. We are still having family conversations about a 12-year-old girl who has been impregnated by a 50-year-old man, and now we are putting it as a discussion of how much compensation we should give to the girl. These are things that people of goodwill like leaders must stand up against and make sure they never happen again. That is why I started by saying that gender is not a woman issue, but a humanity issue. In the same way, there are matters affecting our boys that have not been looked into for a very long time. I will, for example, take the issue of circumcision. What scrutiny is done to the young boys when they go to that initiation during Christmas? We are slightly heading to Christmas. Sometimes, that transition period is used to radicalise our young people to introduce them to drugs and some ideologies that make them become rogue people when they grow up. As much as we are looking at empowerment programmes for our other gender, when we make gender conversation and not a man or woman issue, then we will make sure that no one is left behind including boy and 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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