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    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1336687/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Busia County, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Catherine Omanyo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I want the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) to quickly investigate the Ministry of Education. We want to know, since 2019, who did the procurement, what quantity, and who they supplied to. I come from Busia County, and every school has approached me asking for sanitary towels. We also want to know why they only give for seven months. Is it that they do not care about the other months? If you think of providing somebody with sanitary towels, it means they cannot afford them. It, therefore, means that for those additional months, they do not care whether those kids use rags or they get infections. They only care when those kids are seated there. Those people from the Ministry of Education do not have data on who they have supplied to, and if they have, we want them here. We want EACC to investigate them and give us a report. Every public toilet and hospital you go to, you will find condoms for free and you can pick. Why are they not keen to distribute those sanitary towels to all day schools and public schools in every county, just like condoms? When we talk of infections, they come because of dampness. Those children cannot afford the classy kind of pads. The Ministry of Education has failed us because Women's Representatives are supposed to be distributing. I am one year old in this Parliament, but the Ministry of Education has never asked me to help distribute the pads. Therefore, who is distributing? We cannot say we are supplying as a Government, but you are just supplying what you call hot air. We want the pads now, not tomorrow. I have heard that from January, they will start supplying. Does it mean that every woman in Kenya stops menstruating until January? We want the pads today, or we are headed to that office if you do not help. Thank you."
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