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    "id": 1316451,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nandi County, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Cynthia Muge",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Report by Hon. Kimani Kuria. He does a good job. The Sessional Paper is important. I was asking myself why we have to update the population status. However, looking at the Report, the last update on this matter was in 2012. I was in my first year in university then. You can imagine how many children I have now and how many things have changed in my life that would not have been captured, if this Sessional Paper had not been updated. From the look of things, the Sessional Paper is going to align the priority actions to many agendas that have been set locally, internationally and regionally. As the Chairperson presented, the Sessional Paper tackled many issues that affect the population. However, allow me to pay attention to three matters. The first issue is on fertility. The data shows us the fertility levels regarding adolescents – early pregnancies and childhood marriages. This is still very high. The statistics are going higher. These are teenage girls in Nandi and in Kenya that we are referring to. The maternal mortality rate on Sessional Paper No. 1 of 2023 indicates that we lose 5,000 women, mostly young girls, due to birth complications. My heart bleeds because of this. At this time and age, we cannot have women dying while trying to give life, especially young girls who are raped or impregnated. We must find a solution to this issue. We have the data; we just need all the actors 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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