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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Oketch Gicheru",
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    "content": "this, but again we come up with a new law that forgets that the issues here are finances and distribution. It will be a disservice to women. What we should do is to find an innovative way. I hope that Sen. Gloria will meet me outside this platform, so that we can consult on how we can holistically look at existing infrastructure and ensure that, one, money goes to those infrastructures that exist. Secondly, Madam Temporary Speaker, we need to invest in what exists becomes the issue of distribution, which is the only way we can think about counties and the communities that are proposing this Bill to ensure that in the existing Basic Education Act of 2017, perhaps we could explore something like Article 189 that allows cooperation between the national Government and county governments. They can create a committee that ensures that what already exists under the Ministry of Education can be devolved into the counties to help hasten the process of being able to give those powers to our girls in schools. Doing a whole new law when one exists that has not been funded properly would be a disservice to women. Madam Temporary Speaker, that is my caution and I am mixed at this point whether I support or not. However, I wanted to give caution that this is a danger that might take away from the gains that women have made in the number of the Bills and policies that exist. I wish that both the Secretariat and the Senator who has sponsored this Bill can sit together and look at how we can empower the policies and the Act that exist, to ensure that it gets money, infrastructure for distribution and make sure that we can get the sanitary towels to our women. I thank you."
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