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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, once this Bill is enacted, the Government will be forced to come up with strategic means of ensuring that the human rights and the dignity of the Kenyans as enshrined in the Constitution is protected. It will tell us the steps it will use to ensure all these economic and social rights are provided for. Once that strategic plan has been implemented, it gives a way of monitoring and evaluating. We monitor, evaluate and ensure that, what we plan to do, we will do. We will state what the challenges are and why. Where were we? How did we reach there? What other distance do we have to reach where we want to go? It will be a result-based kind of system that Kenya will be moving to. This is the right direction that we should not shy away from. We should hold it by the horns and move on. We should ensure that that our country becomes better. This Bill ensures that there is budgeting and the Equalisation Fund and that it is utilised well. All this wastage that is happening will be a thing of the past because we shall have known where and what we want to do. We shall have set minimum standards, having the highest attainable standards, as we have seen in Article 43. For example, how many educational institutions did we have? What amount of water and percentage did we have before? What have we gained? Where do we want to go? When we do all this, we will be smiling and everybody will have a decent house and clothing. You do not have to buy those expensive suits for Kshs100,000. However, if people are provided with good clothes, for example, we know that Toy Market in Kibera has very nice clothes. All the teenagers go to buy clothes there irrespective of their social status because they are good, clean and in good condition. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, this is what we have been saying. People should be given an opportunity to choose what they can fit within their budgets but still mix with others without being embarrassed or ashamed. The country can then say we have clothed our people and we do not have anybody walking naked because it has protected their socio-economic status. The reason why I am excited about this Bill is because once implemented, the people who will gain most are women because they will have proper housing and access to water. Sen. Musila, who was earlier here, understands what women go through while looking for water. In semi-arid areas, women waste a lot of time looking for water. In some parts of Siaya County where I come from, it is dry and during our school days in boarding schools, we used to walk long distances looking for water because we could not get it in our schools. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, if we have water in our schools, children will study and will not have to spend days looking for water. Building classrooms and structures becomes easy because everything is within reach. We will have intelligent healthy children because their mothers are able to cultivate and it also gives women enough time to think of doing other businesses. It will not only involve taking their produce to the markets but will also give them space for leadership. They can be Members of County Assemblies, village elders or be nominated to Parliament because the other gender roles which are normally attached to women become less. It is easier to access and do everything quickly and improve the society. I support. 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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