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    "speaker_name": "Molo, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kuria Kimani",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for allowing me to add my voice to this discussion. From the onset, I would like to congratulate the County Member of Parliament for Nairobi, Hon. Esther Passaris, for bringing this Motion today. Hon. Temporary Speaker, it is disheartening and very painful that there are men, who should be protectors of society, killing women. Even in war, women were never killed. If you study wars and even stories in the Bible, there is no time that people killed women and children. The fact that in 2024 there are men, whom you would think have sane minds or you might respect them, committing those heinous acts of injustice on women. It is truly sad. If you listen to some of the arguments made, including on social media saying, for example, that the lady ‘ate’ the fare that you sent, but did not come, you are a fool to have sent money to someone for her to come. This thinking that sex is only enjoyed by men is false. If she wants to have sex, she is going to enjoy it too. Therefore, there is no reason why you should spend money on someone who does not want to come to you. The irony is also that if you listen to many women, they are saying there are no men to love them. They are saying the ratio between those who are in relationships and married is not equal. The excuse men give is that it is woman in the wrong because she was wearing an inappropriate dress, was walking alone at night or she took herself there. All are lame excuses. We must call them what they are and condemn them. This nonsense must stop. We must address inequalities that exist. If there are young girls who have to sleep with men to have sanitary towels, then that is where some of those problems start. For the voices of women to be heard for something as basic as sanitary towels for our girls in primary and secondary schools, they have to beg for it. In the last Session, women Members almost paralysed the House because the money that was supposed to be allocated for sanitary towels for schools had not been released. We have money to give free condoms in public places, but not for sanitary towels for our girls. That is where the problem begins. When women dare to run for political seats, for example, that is when the other problem starts. We start asking them who their husband is or who they have slept with. Even when you find a lady in a lucrative office, you think that she must have slept with somebody for her to get to that office. Once we begin to change this narrative and see women as competent people The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor"
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