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    "id": 1243798,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kibwana",
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        "legal_name": "Kibwana Kivutha",
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    "content": "opportunity to mentor young girls, discuss about the Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and the stigma around fistula. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, Fistula has become an issue and now we have hospitals offering surgeries. This will be an opportunity to enlighten the women in Turkana. In mentoring the girls, they will get to understand their issues and support them in different areas. A county like Turkana requires a lot of support, especially mentally. I am providing mental health support to police officers. I take time to discuss with them and understand them as well. We know what the people of Turkana have been going through, like cattle rustling and other stuff. I will follow up on the mental health support I had done before for post-partum depression. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I urge counties to have separate wings for post- partum mothers going through mental depression. This will be an opportunity to oversight the counties on gender parity in order to understand gender composition in their counties. We shall explore a lot. We would want to visit the black gold - oil - in order to understand that area. We are rich in such and minerals as well. It is just we do not do a lot of exploration in Kenya. Let us get to understand their area of needs before we travel there.I am sure many hospitals lack beds, equipment and items. How do we support that? I urge the Senate and the KEWOSA to understand what they really require and support them. Water is scarce and is an issue. Is it possible for us to dig a well in Turkana? There was a time Isiolo required water and my family did a well. We only spent about around Kshs700,000. Right now, they have water. Is it the same for Turkana County? How will we support the women? How do we also support the men because they also have issues? We will have all the time, we have one week. I am imagining one week in Turkana. We need to gear ourselves. I am sure it will be a good opportunity for us to even understand the culture itself. As I said, looking at the culture we always see things on the television and many others. There is a saying that goes “kwa ground vitu ni different ”. We actually want to understand what is on the ground. For that and many other reasons, I do support the journey of the Senate Mashinani to Turkana County."
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