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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Lemaletian",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I join my colleagues to strongly oppose the rampant cases of femicide happening in Kenya against young women. There is so much a man can do to a woman other than beat her. As far as I know, women are the most nurturing creatures of God’s creation. Even when we look back at the biblical story on creation, God created man, and he was not satisfied. So, he saw that there was importance of the woman being part of his creation, and therefore he created the woman. Interestingly enough, the woman became the vessel by which God delivered more human beings to earth. Through the woman, we have the procreation and the posterity of the human race. That means that when you eliminate a woman, you are threatening to wipe out the entire human race. I liken this to the case of the egg coming before the hen, which one came before the other? I think that is the situation that is happening right now. Perhaps, some men are a bit sour that they are still not in the Garden of Eden enjoying fruits alone. It is quite embarrassing to see Kenya trending globally for all the wrong reasons. Just the other day, we were praising our country for giving a very powerful position for the first time like the Chief Justice to a woman. I call upon the same courts to ensure that justice is served to the families of young women who have been murdered. I have personally heard of very derogatory remarks coming, especially from people we consider honourable on these corridors of power. I have heard someone saying to me “this young girl should have been impregnated by somebody right now.” Like men could not find somebody to impregnate this woman. To me, these kinds of sexist remarks culminate into these murders. Men who label women in that sexist manner are equivalent to these murderers. We say that the fish rots from the head. If we cannot lead by example as men and women elected to serve the rights of these people, then, we are going to achieve nothing. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I was raised in a village by a very great man among warriors as a nomadic pastoralist girl. All I have known in my life is that men protect and provide. So, men should try and walk away from the hypocrisy that we are seeing, leading from the top. We may be dealing with a crisis of men who are insecure and badly raised and do not know their role in society. We have seen many organizations doing women empowerment. What are our men in power doing to ensure that these young men are empowered or we are just doing a men's conference which ideally is supposed to take these men away from the women? What kind of things are men of this country doing?"
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