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    "speaker_name": "Baringo County, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jematiah Sergon",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. From the outset, I thank my colleague, Hon. Njeri. I also join my colleagues who have supported this Motion, which is timely. This country should take a look and understand the situation that we have in our schools, specifically in primary and secondary schools. Comprehensive sex education is a very important thing and component of our lives, especially in our children’s lives. I speak as a woman, as a mother and specifically as a rural leader. We have a lot of problems when it comes to teenage pregnancies. Many times, it is because we have not taken up the responsibility right from home. It is the primary responsibility of parents to teach their children to understand and give advice to our girls and boys as they grow up, especially when they are in the adolescence stage, because these are the times when they feel they are becoming special, see a lot of differences in their body morphology, and they also want to try a lot of interactions with each other. It has also been made worse by the fact that nowadays we have schools that are designated fully for girls only and boys only. We are actually drifting away from the realities. When we encourage these single schools, sometimes it becomes very hard for these children to understand and adopt their differences. This is because, if I am a teenage girl, I would probably want to imagine that the next person who is also a girl like me would be feeling differently, or I want to explore what my other friend is feeling. That is why we have all this LGBTQ problems starting and emanating right from primary schools and mostly secondary schools. This is the time that we as a society should sit down and organise our future generation. I thank the Mover of the Motion because this is something that has been ailing the society for a very long time. That is why there are remedies like Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), imagining that when you cut a girl, you minimise the feelings that they are feeling amongst one another. But at the end of the day, we are doing more damage because everything is psychological. When we take this comprehensive education and make it compulsory in the schools, we will manage most of the problems that these girls and boys go through. For instance, when we grow up and go to universities, we get opportunities to interact and be free. We assume that we are older than when we were in primary and secondary schools. But when you do not get proper sex education, it becomes hard for you to adapt and understand. You might think that everything that happens, happens because it is normal, and you end up having a lot of sexual intercourse all over the place, and you will contract diseases. We are not talking about preventing pregnancies; it is actually the diseases that are more problematic than the pregnancies. Pregnancy is a natural phenomenon. As much as sex is also a natural phenomenon, the problem is that there are injections of infections that have affected and are ailing the society so much. Even in economic status, hospitals are congested because of antiretrovirals (ARVs), and treatment of gonorrhoea and syphilis which are very traumatising diseases. This can be curbed by helping the generation that is going through adolescence through proper sexual education in schools. We also have young mothers and girls who have children probably around 18 to 20 years old. When we were growing up, these were the times our aunties would sit us down and give us a lot of information about getting married and taking care of family. This is because sex is a component in this thing. It would be very helpful if we take this thing and cascade it to primary school levels. Even when we are distributing sanitary towels as Women 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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