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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mungatana, MGH",
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    "content": "I urge that Sen. Orwoba soldiers on and fellow Senators to support this Bill. There is only thing by way of improvement of this Bill that I would like my colleague to think about. I am reading a provision about the structure of the administration of the Bill. It says that she intends to set up a committee through this Bill that would have a cooperate entity. It is an inter-ministerial committee on provision of sanitary towels. I have been through a lot of legislation. How do we create and inter-ministerial committee and give it corporate entity? Would it not have been better to set up a proper parastatal in charge of this? I say this because it has a corporate seal, it can sue and be sued. It does purchasing and all these things like a proper corporate entity. The inter- ministerial committee has a chairperson and Principal Secretary (PS) responsible for gender, the PS for education or their representative designate. You also have the PS for correctional services, for higher education and for vocational education. There are so many principal secretaries. Apart from these many PSs or their designates, there is the Attorney-General. I have been in Government for a while and also Chair of the Kenya Ports Authority (KPA). I know how boards are supposed to work. At least for a board one is sure who the member is. They are given their allowances and they know whenever they sit, there is a certain benefit attached to it. For these ministerial things, the officer who comes one day may not be the one in the next meeting. One day the gender or even correctional person does not come. It is a different person every time. It becomes impossible to make a decision as a corporate because maybe the other officer from the Ministry of Gender is not there. It becomes so The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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