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    "id": 753733,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Okoth",
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        "legal_name": "Kenneth Odhiambo Okoth",
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    "content": "benefit the whole country. We are politicians here. My friends, this is where we are going to get votes. Let us make sure that our young people get free secondary education so that, in 2017, they will appreciate that we had a Jubilee Government policy and that this Parliament passed budgets that responded to their needs. That way, the Jubilee Government may be voted in a second time. That is free advice from me. With those few remarks, I want to thank the Committee for doing good groundwork and pulling it all together in a coherent way. There is a lot of work to be done, but I am grateful that this democracy is growing. Parliament is standing on its feet and doing its job. We will keep doing this for all Kenyans with seriousness and commitment. Let us fix those few things here and there, especially without shortchanging our children. There is a very sensitive budget issue. Those who do not know me well, I will tell you something about me. I am a feminist. What do I mean? I support the rights of women to equal access to education. The girl-child has a right to equal rights to the future and inheritance of this country. When children start primary school, the enrolment is 60 per cent girls and 40 per cent boys. By the time they finish Class Eight, it is 60 per cent boys finishing school and only 40 per cent girls completing school. That transition happens when they get to Class Five and Class Six. We are talking here about very basic issues like sanitary pads. This is one of the reasons girls start losing out in schools. It starts as three or four days per month, then grows into nine times in a year when they lose 36 days of school. They fall behind. In four years, the performance of girls increasingly decreases. If we really care about our children, boys and girls alike, please, Hon. Musyimi find a way of getting Kshs500 million to fund girls so that they can be supplied with sanitary pads. I beg you! If you ignore anything else, do not leave our sisters behind."
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