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    "id": 1336673,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Turkana County, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Cecilia A. Ngitit",
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    "content": "listen to a Statement that is not factual. The Ministry of Education has said that all the counties have received those pads. However, Members from urban counties are complaining that they have not seen them. You can imagine what happens to far-end counties like Turkana and the northern region. You have told us that seven packets of pads reflect the seven months those girls are in school. However, we know the bureaucracy in the procurement process of the Government ministries. We know that when those girls are in school, they do not get pads every month. Seven packets of sanitary towels for those months when schools are on is still a joke. We know the quality of pads that the Government usually procures. It is the quality of Flora pads. They are undignified ones that do not hold periods for some hours. Hon. Deputy Speaker, we are far from giving our girls dignity as a country. Turkana County, most of the northern regions and marginalised counties are still very far. We need to give dignity to those girls. I am looking forward to a moment when we will have a dignity kit containing a sanitary packet, pants and other things for hygiene that come with periods. Girls do not even have pants in some regions. You can give a girl sanitary towels, but she does not have pants. It happens in some of those counties. Let us think of how we can have dignity kits for our girls. It is very unfortunate that in today's society, our girls still fall prey to inhuman practices like sexual favours for pads. That is the lowest indignity to any human being on this earth. Just as condoms are in every dispenser in toilets, we want sanitary towels in all the dispensers in bars and hotels."
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