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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orwoba",
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    "content": "about the things that we need to do. We have given reports and recommendations in this House. We have brought Statements and summoned the Cabinet Secretaries. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we had the Cabinet Secretary for Interior and National Administration who is now the Deputy President, Hon. (Prof.) Kithure Kindiki. We have even had pronunciations being made by the President. As a country, are we intentional in terms of ending all forms of GBV, be it the violence that is meted out during intimate partner violence situations, female genital mutilation and online cyberbullying that is meted out on women? What have we done as a Government that signed a women's charter and promised to stand and make sure that the women of Kenya are represented? As I support the Motion on adoption the Report of NADCO, I look forward to seeing this being executed. I remain hopeful, but I am also very cautious that we are not going to end up as a talk show. One of the things that I always tell the President, who happens to be my party leader as well, is that I am stubborn. I speak up and appear to be very arrogant and adamant on certain issues. This is because I understand the promises that we put on paper and promised the women of Kenya. I promised myself when I got nominated to this seat that in my time in this Senate, I will ensure we deliver whatever we were selling during the campaigns. We talked about free sanitary towels to all schoolgirls and women in the vulnerable communities. In my day-to-day activities, these are some of the things that I hold dearly and push for in my legislative agenda. We promised the women of Kenya that we are going to have proper maternal health care. In the background of the confusion in the Social Health Authority (SHA) and the challenges with the Universal Health Care (UHC) system that we are proposing to revolutionize that space, I keep asking myself, where is the maternal healthcare? What are we doing about Linda Mama? That is why even as I get the backlash of being part of this Government, we are working behind the scenes because I hold dearly some of the things. I am well aware that, being a beneficiary of an affirmative action seat, I have to make sure my voice is heard every time we are talking about these issues. Aside from the femicide, the GBV, representation in the National Assembly, the Senate or the Cabinet, I highlight that there are certain economic programmes in this country that we have to intentionally put a gender lens. When we are proposing an economic programme for the vulnerable, startups and the youth, where are the women of Kenya in these programmes? One of the programmes that has been very successful in the Kenya Kwanza Government is the fertilizer programme. It has yielded a lot of positive results in the harvest we have had in coffee and tea production. However, every single time I see any executive or a representative of the executive talking about the fertilizer programme, I want to always ask, where are the women in that fertilizer programme? How are we ensuring that in the politics of the local distribution of fertilizer, how are the women farmers, who are also hard-working Kenyans, benefiting from this programme? When it comes to the Hustler Fund Programme, I am always keen to look at the statistics of how women are faring. How are they borrowing? If they are paying back, is it"
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