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    "id": 1491751,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1491751/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Veronica Maina",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. Hon. Cabinet Secretary, we are headed for school holidays in another few weeks in December. During school holidays, girls suffer; a lot of violence is meted against school girls. There are those who face mutilation through the Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and yet, they are school-going children. Does the Ministry have any plan or any strategy to ensure that these schoolgirls are protected this December? Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have in mind counties where FGM is rampant like in some of the North Eastern counties, the central part of Kenya and counties like Bomet. What plans does the Ministry have to ensure that these girls come back to school in January without having faced that knife, the FGM menace and the consequences that befall these children? Further, what is the Ministry doing about the 68 or so girls who have been prosecuted because of going through that rite? The victims have been prosecuted through criminal proceedings and they are facing sentences or serious penal consequences because of having faced the knife, and yet they were taken there by adults. What measures does the Ministry to safeguard that?"
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