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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Shakeel",
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        "legal_name": "Ahmed Shakeel Shabbir Ahmed",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I stand to support this Motion. I want to thank Mr. Gumbo for bringing it here. However, I understand that there is already a budget for this in the Ministry of Education. The Prime Minister has already made a Statement and it has been acted on by the Government. For that, I want to thank the Government for being sensitive to this. Linking that with this Motion, may I suggest that, as the Minister for Public Health and Sanitation has just brought to our attention, let us focus on the issue of toilets. The number of toilets, especially in rural schools, is not sufficient for the girl-child, leave alone the other children. We have been told that for every two toilets for boys, we must have three for girls. This is one thing that the Ministry must look at when they are inspecting schools, and give them those notices. Sanitary towels cost no more than about Kshs20. There are neighbouring countries that have started to put up sanitary towel factories. However, we are still importing ours from abroad. When the programme is certain, may I suggest that the sanitary towels that will be brought within the scheme be packaged in a way that they cannot be sold to others under the guise of receiving sanitary towels for free. I support very much the amendment by Mrs. Mugo. She suggested that it should not be all girls, but needy school girls. I might want to suggest that, perhaps, as a pilot scheme, this should start in the rural areas where the girl-child is most handicapped, and then move slowly to the urban areas where they have more facilities. The system we could use is some sort of voucher system where the headteacher - especially the headmistress - or a lady teacher identifies and distributes vouchers to the girls who need them. Furthermore, I feel that the issue of sanitary towels does not end there. For us who do not really understand but we have daughters, we have to understand that sanitary towels have to be disposed of. Where there are pit latrines, there is no problem, but I stand corrected. But I think where there are flush systems; there is the question of disposal. If disposal of sanitary towels is not also regulated, we are going to have a lot of problems especially in respect of hygiene. I cannot understand why we can slow pedal on this--- I was hoping that the Ministry would put together a pilot scheme for this as soon as possible. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, with those few remarks, I beg to support."
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