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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orwoba",
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    "content": "the femicide we continue to see and bring as Statements should be declared by the President as a national disaster. The definition is there; it is causing a significant disruption of the life of the community. When all of these regulations are being placed here, my question and the voice that I am adding to this Bill is, are we really thinking through all the natures or characteristics of what we are calling a national disaster? Madam Temporary Speaker, a simple example of how we are proposing to deal with disaster risk reduction does not speak to some of the disasters that we are experiencing. We have had so many incidences of delayed justice based on disasters. On the issue of the gender-based courts, we have severally gone on record and asked that the Chief Justice (CJ) allocates a timing such that most of these SGBV-related cases are prosecuted within six months. However, when I read the proposals on how we are dealing with disaster management, then I beg to ask my fellow colleagues whether we are thinking through that disaster is not just limited to floods and fires. We are also experiencing a femicide disaster as women in Kenya. That is what I am trying to say. As women representing women in this Senate, we must speak the truth on what we are going through. Madam Temporary Speaker, to move on from that, if you read the Bill, it says that the objective of this Act is to provide for a legislative framework for disaster risk management, enhance the effectiveness and coordinated disaster preparedness prevention response and to reduce disaster risks and vulnerabilities at the national and the county levels. My question then to the proposers of this Bill is; while we are setting up the committees, the funds and the regulations, are we really thinking about the big constituency of women and girls who end up being victims of many of the natural disasters that we have in this country? So, I encourage the proposers of this Bill to not limit our thinking to fires, floods and natural calamities such as climate change but to also, think of the disasters that are pushed by human interaction and created by human beings which are here with us. Every day, we speak on them in form of statements. I particularly highlight the national disaster of gender-based violence, intimate partner violence and femicide. Thank you, I support the Bill."
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