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    "speaker_name": "Mrs. Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, thank you for giving me this opportunity. I want to start off by thanking Mr. Chachu for bringing this Bill. It is, indeed, timely because as a country we have been faced with the challenges relating to drought, the most obvious one, of course, being the issue of food security. We know that over the years this country has faced poverty as a consequence of that and one of the major reasons has been the poor response to drought management or a not very effective drought management system in the country. So I want to thank Mr. Chachu for taking that initiative and also just thanking him for being consistent because he has been pushing this agenda. He brought a Motion which I supported and I just want to thank him. In thanking him, I also want to acknowledge that, indeed, there has been feminization of poverty and the face of poverty in this country is the women. If you see the persons who have to walk distances to look for water, it is women. If you look at persons who die because of not being able to access basic needs, it is the women and know that the men also suffer but the persons who suffer the most are the women. Whenever the women suffer, our children suffer by consequence as Dr. Khalwale indicated. So I want to thank the hon. Member that without even indicating it, he is thinking about our women."
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