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    "content": "With the enactment of this Bill once it has been passed, we will have a very good platform which will enable us to reach our constituents. When we talk about a woman, the youth and the children are part of it. There are many areas which need to be exploited. Madam Temporary Speaker, you had passed a Motion that should help the teenagers who have had babies and have to go back to school. I have also tabled a Bill that will also take care of the adolescence amongst others, with reproductive rights of all the adults. How are we going to monitor the implementations and see what needs to be done and adjusted? It is through the work and help of this committee. When there is easy facilitation and coordination, it is easier to perform. By the end of the day, the work of the women in Parliament and the Senate more specifically, shall be seen and appreciated. The drafters of the Constitution were alive to other stakeholders but it was felt that we still need the women to be partners within this noble duty of legislation and oversight within the county assemblies or county governments. Madam Temporary Speaker, we have other aspects of the human rights that we must protect and more particularly the women rights. It is still a patriarchal society; we have a long way to go. When we sit down as Senate and delegate our responsibilities all the way from the Senate to the county and to the women as a whole- because we know that when a woman screams, they call upon us they do not care whether we are elected, nominated, which party you represent or your colour, they want to know that you are a woman leader. The women leaders were brought in to safeguard the gains of the women. That is why we are here and we are saying “finally we are seeing light at the end of the tunnel.” We shall have a forum and our full potential shall be felt. We have been handicapped. If the elected Senators, even though they are more facilitated than us are crying and saying that they feel handicapped, what about us? We are also marginalized and we need to be protected. With this, we shall have a larger forum of ventilating our issues so that we can perform our oversight role, which is very important. We know, and our sisters within the county assemblies have reached to us and told us that we need capacity building. I am talking about the nominated Members of County Assemblies (MCAs) who have approached the nominated women Senators, that they need capacity building. How do we reach out to them? How do we even find access to all these facilities that we can partner with, together with our colleagues because we are all one? It is only that we have a unique constituency. If we work together as a team, we will uplift the rights of women, protect them and provide proper and good leadership that will improve not only the economy and the health of this nation, but will put Kenya where it is supposed to be. So far, Kenya has been acknowledged and I am glad, you were in New York in March and you are aware that Kenya was acknowledged for the legislative gains it has achieved on women issues. If we have done that, why not implement? Implementation will only come when we have facilitation, proper programmes, policies and plans that will enable us to do so. We have seen that just in the same month of March, the President of the Republic of Kenya was awarded for being in the forefront championing for the women’s gains. How do we protect, oversight and make sure that they are well protected? We have the Beyond Zero mobile clinics by the First Lady; it is our responsibility and The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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