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    "id": 1336660,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Marsabit County, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Naomi Waqo",
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    "content": " Hon. Deputy Speaker, the response is good, but we are not satisfied. It is not convincing. Women and men know the challenges young girls face in school. Some parents can afford sanitary towels for their girls. However, some have no idea of what their daughters need to have in school. We are looking for equality. We want sanitary towels to be taken to every part of this country. We want our daughters to be given enough sanitary towels. If a girl misses school for five days every month, you can imagine the number of days that she skips school in a year. People often say that our girls keep missing classes because they do not want to be embarrassed. Do you know how girls in primary school are intimidated in different ways? That is why we want to end the intimidation and shaming of our daughters. We want them to feel free and perform well academically. When we do this as a Government, we will enhance the academic performance of our daughters in school. Denying them sanitary towels will automatically interfere with their academic performance. The Kenya Kwanza Government is here to transform and touch lives. When we talk of the Bottom-up Economic model, we should consider this first. Let us have enough sanitary towels for our daughters. Let us also empower the Women Representatives so that from our offices, we can reach out to every corner of our counties and daughters to protect them. If we do that, they will always feel free to participate in every action that they are needed. Our girls do not go to school sometimes. When they have extra-curricular activities out of the school, sometimes, they do not participate. We want to end all that embarrassment. We want our daughters to walk with their heads up, knowing that we are here to defend their rights. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I support the Statement."
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