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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orwoba",
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    "content": "moved my Bill on period poverty through the Second Reading. That is one of the pieces of legislation that we have on the Floor of the House. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, you know the SDGs are 17. Goal No.4 is on quality education. One of the indicators for this SDG Goal No.4 is that you have attendance rates at the primary schools and the colleges. Some of the pieces of legislation that I have seen here, including the Bill on child protection by Sen. Miraj seek to address Goal No.4. As I support this Report, I also want to talk about Goal No.5, which is to achieve gender equality. I am a Kenyan woman who has benefited from the affirmative programme to represent women in this House. We have recently had several conversations in the public about femicide, Gender-Based Violence (GBV) and other issues combating the women of Kenya. Some of the conversations have been very saddening. The latest one that was highlighted was that some or all our girls are involved victims of femicide because they are looking for money. I have seen that the Cabinet Secretary nominee for Gender, Culture, the Arts and Heritage has been approved by the Committee in the National Assembly. I would like to encourage the legislators in line with this high-level political forum report to sit down with the Cabinet Secretary nominee for Gender, Culture, the Arts and Heritage - because they have approved her as a committee - and perhaps sensitize her on the SDG No.5, which is to achieve gender equality with regard to certain matters as femicide. There is need for sensitivity and it is important for us, as legislators and leaders of this country, to understand a simple fact such as, we cannot blame a victim and purport to be pushing the ideology of the SDGs that are being highlighted here. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, you can see that I am trying to really hurry through my points because of the time limitation. Sustainable Goal No.8 is decent work and the economic growth in this country. In terms of this Sustainable Development Goal (SDG), the Kenya Kwanza Government has really tried to provide a programme under the Labour Export Programme. We have the Government to Government (GtG), where, our Cabinet Secretary for Labour and Social Protection goes out to negotiate with other governments to try and ring fence certain jobs of dignity such as manual labouror, plant operator and drivers, so that our jobless youth and Kenyans can go abroad and offer their skill set to those particular economies while they earn money. Under this SDG No.8, I want to say that it is very unfortunate that we, as a Government, have intentionally tried to push this SDG by going out and ring fencing all these jobs that we have out there, whether in Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Germany and Canada. It is so unfortunate to see the holders of these offices, including those in the Ministry of Labour and Social protection butchering a well-intended programme. We have had a series of so many highlights of the fraudulent activities of agents colluding with some of the officers, including some in high offices at the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection, to con innocent Kenyans who are trying to go out and seek a dignified living by working on these jobs that the Government has purportedly gone out to look for. 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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