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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ogola",
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    "content": "The reason I mentioned some of these topical issues is because when we go back to our communities, we are only left with functions like funerals or you happen to meet people impromptu. Members who are nominated like me may not have the capacity to run full-time physical offices where you can meet your people if you go to the ground. It follows that wherever you meet them, whether it is in your home or in a funeral, that is when as a leader you have an opportunity to address and talk to them about pertinent issues like femicide. If we had this law, county governments would have an opportunity, as enshrined in the structures that are here, to educate our people, particularly young girls and women who continue to lose their lives as a result of femicide. I am left wondering why in this community, every day when we wake up, you hear that either a three-year or 12-year old girl has been abused and killed. Just the other day, I mentioned a young girl that I taught in school called Mercy who was murdered in the middle of the night in Ndhiwa Town. We hear those stories every day. Some of them are even published in the dailies. This will be an opportunity to take our people through cautionary measures. County national Government officials will have an opportunity and structures where they can progressively take our young girls through certain ways in which they can protect themselves or smell danger around them. As I have said, education is an ongoing exercise. If you can recall, when we had the NADCO discussions--- I want to congratulate our two leaders; the President of this country, Hon. (Dr.) William Samoei Ruto, and the enigma, Hon. Raila Amolo Odinga, who took an opportunity to ask us to forget about the chaos and sit together. They put up a team of leaders from the Senate and the National Assembly that brought about the NADCO Report. As we talk about the NADCO Report, are we sure the general population in this country is aware of the details or the nitty-gritties in it? In this Bill, we should have a way of letting our people know some of those topical issues that we discuss as leaders that affect their lives. In most of the conversations that I have with my community and the public, there are always issues coming up about the IEBC. People want to know when we will have new commissioners, when our boundaries will be reviewed, or when we will start preparations for the next election. I am saying this because these are topical issues that always come up. I support this Bill because through it, some of these topical issues will be related to our people. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I am also happy that this Bill mentions that public officials, be they national or at county level, will undergo a mandatory civic and training on their roles and responsibilities. A number of people get to positions, some of them even elected, appointed or nominated like some of us, but sometimes, it is pathetic when you see the way some of us undertake our roles."
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