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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orwoba",
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    "content": "I heard Sen. Mungatana speak on the powers that this Bill is going to give to an independent committee. According to the definition and his submissions, he said that the committee was going to be equivalent to a parastatal. What is happening is that there is a big fight and that is why this Bill is important. People want our schoolgirls to get sanitary towels and different institutions actually support the provision of sanitary towels. Our women representatives, Ministry of Public Service, Youth and Gender and the Ministry of Education all support provision of sanitary towels. All these institutions are fighting to be the custodians of the procurement and distribution of sanitary pads. That is why we have never made any headway in terms of the impact on this budgetary allocation. Do you know what my Bill is attempting to do? It is attempting to take away that authority from any of these actors and devolving it down to the counties and the beneficiaries of those sanitary towels. So, instead of debating on whether these independent committees are going to have powers to the level or to the extent of a parastatal, the argument should be why have we not made headway when it was domiciled at the Ministry of Education? The answer is very simple. This is because procurement and distribution never had a legal framework. Why is it that we did not make headways when we brought it to the Ministry of Public Service, Youth and Gender? The answer The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and Audio Services, Senate."
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