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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) F.M. Mutua",
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        "legal_name": "Florence Mwikali Mutua",
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    "content": "As I end, Clause 11 of the Bill introduces a New Section 46A immediately after Section 46 of the Act. The proposed section requires the CS for Education, Science and Technology and the ministry responsible for schools to prescribe guidelines for the inclusion of sex education at some agreed levels in the school syllabus. Such education will go a long way in ensuring that our children are natured to be sexually responsible and to respect each other’s dignity. On the issue of sex education, Busia County which I represent, from January to December 2016 had 9,167 girls who dropped out of school. Some of these girls were interviewed and we came to realise that some of them even said that they did not know that the act they were getting into would end up in pregnancy. This means that some of these girls did not understand the basics of what sex is. So, we really need to have sex education in schools because it might even minimise the high level of school dropouts. It will also minimise the high level of early pregnancies and will ensure our girls and boys respect one another’s dignity. With those few remarks, I beg to move and Hon. Jared Opiyo was to second. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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