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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orwoba",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise to support this Amendment Bill. I do not want to belabour points that have been said by my colleagues. I would like to point out that we have so many pieces of legislation that have been passed and signed into law, but they have not been implemented. One of them happens to be provision of sanitary towels. When there was an amendment on the Basic Education Act, the Ministry of Education was tasked to provide sanitary towels to school girls. It took at least three years before that was implemented. Even after it was implemented for a couple of years, there were no guidelines. It was as if the person in office would decide whether to implement, say they are looking for a transitional committee, or whatever. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I just wanted to add my voice on this by saying that not only do we need to have a framework on the guidelines, timelines and who is to do what. As a Senate, it is imperative to consider having a special committee that will be in charge of ensuring that pieces of legislation that we pass in this House are implemented. As I support this amendment, I would also like to say that having sat in the Committee on Delegated Legislation, there are so many statutory instruments that we can utilise in terms of ensuring that we institute changes in places where we have gaps in legislation. The problem is that we still do not have a way of following through. What we are trying to cure also applies to the Committee on Delegated Legislation. Mr. Speaker, Sir, as I support, I would like to convince the Sponsor of this Bill to also consider proposing a Standing Order, where we can have an implementation committee for the Bills that we pass. I thank you."
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