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    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": " Thank you. Hon. Temporary Speaker. I hear Hon. Irene Mayaka saying I am a father to girls, which is true. I am a father to four very beautiful girls, and two of them are teenagers. I want to believe they need sanitary towels. Their father is able to provide for them, but there are millions of other Kenyan girls whose fathers and mothers cannot afford to provide sanitary towels for them. We cannot overstate the need to get sanitary towels to our young ladies in schools and, if possible, even to mothers in markets who cannot afford. Many people in Government take it that the political class ask for these things for the sake of it, but the political class including our very gracious Women Representatives ask for these things because they are in touch with the people and they know the problems that the people are living with. This function has been a see-saw as Hon. Sabina Chege has said. She has been the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee of Education. She also chaired the Departmental Committee on Health in the last Parliament. Now I know we have the Departmental Committee on Social Protection in our Standing Orders, but there has been a see- saw between the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Public Service, Gender and Affirmative Action. At one point, this function was in the Ministry of Public Service, Gender and Affirmative Action, and then it was moved to the Ministry of Education. Now I am told it is back to the Ministry of Public Service, Gender and Affirmative Action. I cannot speak with certainty where the funds currently reside. Therefore, I will commit to get a joint Statement by the cabinet secretaries for Education and for Public Service, Gender and Affirmative Action. We appropriated money in the last financial year for sanitary towels. In this financial year, we have also appropriated money and so we must know from the last financial year, what did that money do if it is true there are no sanitary towels in our schools? In this financial year, have they procured? Have they delivered? What are they doing to make sure that that last mile delivery to the girls happens in due course? I will commit, hopefully by Tuesday next week, to give a Statement to the House."
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