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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mumma",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have taken an interest in the justice sector to find out whether we have one million prosecutions of the girls who have been defiled because those are the pregnancies we have. We do not even have a hundred. What does that show? It shows that we are not interested in implementing our own law of protecting our children. For this girl who is 14 and is pregnant, she has just been told, “give birth and go back to school or go back to school with your child.” Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is the biggest problem that we have. If you look at the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) statistics, the highest transmission rates are amongst the 14 and 19 years old; the same cohort. However, we are moving on thinking the biggest problem here is anything else. In my view, the biggest problem in Kenya is the neglect of the adolescent boys and girls. This is only showing what is happening. How did we end up with 1.4 million abortions? It is because our health system is not designed to receive adolescents on their own and take care of them. So, what happens? We have, especially in Nairobi, a parallel illegal health system on the streets; where girls ae getting fake family planning and fake P2 pills. Many of them will be hurt and they will have infertility problems. Who is peddling this? We have enough fake doctors within our systems purporting to manage adolescence. This happens because our health systems are not friendly to adolescent services and we have not agreed to have counselors and people who can speak to children about sex education within our schools. We think that speaking to girls in our churches is training them to do the wrong thing. No. What we are doing is that we are killing our future. This is not just about the girls. The boys do not get pregnant, but many of them are being defiled. They do not speak because our culture has tabooed us from discussing sex. I want us to go and find out what is happening from your nephews. You can even do it for fun. You will find out that what is happening out there is bad."
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