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    "id": 1371880,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Crystal Asige",
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    "content": "sentenced. That is over five years. That does not encompass cases that involves appeals, which of course extends the duration even further. This trend is incompatible with commitments made by the Government in 2021 as part of the GBV Action Coalition on the Generation Equality Initiative. Under this initiative, Kenya made strong commitments, key of which was to end GBV in Kenya by 2026. Other commitments included adding GBV medical, legal and psychological support services into the essential minimum package of the Universal Health Coverage (UHC) by 2022, establishing a GBV Survivors Fund, establishing GBV Recovery and Survivors Shelters in every single county, scaling up the National Police Service (NPS) response times and investigations into GBV, developing GBV Management and Information Systems by 2022, and fully implementation of GBV laws and policies by adopting a GBV Indicator in the Government Performance Contracting Framework. It goes without saying that the Government is lagging desperately behind on these commitments, creating an ever worsening narrative that says that Government does not care about the lives of women in Kenya. So, men, kindly carry on killing. That is the narrative that is capturing the nation’s women. The time for complacency is over and we must unite in our efforts to eradicate this pervasive issue. I urge the Executive to prioritize strict enforcement of our existing laws that unequivocally condemn these murders bringing perpetrators to book for this capital offence. Additionally, I call upon the police to strengthen their response mechanisms and ramp up training to officers who handle femicide cases. To the public, we must reject violence in all its forms. Murder is murder and what we have witnessed is unjustifiable. We cannot stand idly by while our mothers, sisters and daughters lay dead in a pool of their own blood because the price of our silence is paid with the lives of these women. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I beg to move and call upon Sen. Miraj to kindly second. I thank you."
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