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    "id": 1272592,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kitui East, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Nimrod Mbai",
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    "content": "Secondly, I appreciate our almighty God. Things were not so good for me yesterday. The position that was under attack is that of my community and not mine. I cannot stand to lose it. I will be cursed. I will make effort to be here and correct things. There is something I have picked on the issue of health in our schools. I represent a rural constituency like most of you. Girls become pregnant at early stages in the rural constituencies. Our girls drop out of secondary school at the age of 14 or 15 years, when they are in Form Two or Form Three. You do not find the same in urban areas. That does not mean that girls in rural areas engage more in reproductive behaviour than the ones in the urban areas. Whatever is taught in the urban areas for girls to be aware, alert, and restrain from getting early pregnancies is part of health education. I urge that it is also put in the curriculum for the girls in the rural areas to be aware of how to protect themselves and not waste their lives with early pregnancies. We lose brilliant minds. These girls end up losing the whole of their lives. When you drop out of school, within no time, you get a second child, a third and a fourth one. A mother of five children in the rural areas has her peers in the university in urban areas. I urge the Mover of the Motion to include reproductive health as part of the curriculum, especially in the rural areas. With those remarks, I beg to support the Motion. Thank you."
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