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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orwoba",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise to add my comment on Sen. Beth Syengo’s Statement. Allow us, as women, to talk about femicide. It is a taxi driver here who was a female, it has been violence on intimate partners who are women. All those Airbnb and Kware Dam stories affected women. We will not ignore it anymore because it is women being killed. There are one or two men, the exceptions. Femicide is a problem in this country. We cannot keep ignoring women. This is why we do not have a Cabinet Secretary for Gender and Affirmative Action. This is because any time we try to put our heads up to say we, women, are being sat on, someone stands to say it is not an issue of women. It is an issue of women. Tell me how many women have died in the last six months. How many men have been kidnapped and killed in the last six months? We are here to represent women and what we want is for femicide be recognized as a national disaster. We already have murder being dealt with, but femicide where women are specifically targeted is the problem. It is like when we speak about women things, people want to stand and say it is not about women, sit down. Women are being killed. Mr. President, we are tired. Do something, give us a Cabinet Secretary for Gender and a special programme under the Ministry of Interior and National Administration. The story here is that our women need to be protected."
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