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    "id": 801176,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker for giving me this opportunity. I wish to support what the President said in his exposition that, indeed, the handshake is good for this country. I hope through it, we will get the Rusinga-Ring Road and Mfangano-Ring Road in my constituency done as the President promised us during his campaigns. I want to be very brief on the issues which the exposition relates to. On the issue of the Report on the Measures Taken and Progress Achieved in the Realisation of National Values and Principles of Governance, the President talked about his commitment to fight corruption in this country. I happen to have been trained on issues of governance and anti-corruption. It does not matter what we do, as I have said before in this House and I will repeat, unless we have political goodwill, we will never slay corruption. It is indeed, good that the President has taken very stern steps and actions towards dealing with the issue of corruption. I do not know why the President is looking for legacy. The legacy he can give this country, in my view, is only two things. One is dealing with corruption and the other is uniting this country. The handshake is one step towards this, but we need to unite this country beyond the handshake. Slaying corruption is the only way to unite this country. I sit in the Budget and Appropriations Committee. From what I can see in terms of resources which go to different projects in this country, if this money was properly utilised, Kenya would be another United States of America (USA). Many people would want to come and dwell in this country instead of having a lot of human resource flight to other countries. I am hoping that the President stays firm and on course on the issue of corruption. But I would want to urge him that if he wants to deal with corruption, he must tell the people around him to keep off public resources so that he is set free to deal firmly with corruption. On the Report on the Progress Made in Fulfillment of the International Obligations of the Republic, I want to say that Kenya has done extremely well in terms of ratification of treaties. For me, especially of interest are the ones concerning human rights, focusing on women, children, persons with disabilities and marginalised people. My concern though is that recently, we have seen a crawl back in terms of implementation. Kenya was clearly on course but of late, we have crawled back. I want to speak specifically on the issue of violence against women and extrajudicial police killings. I would want to urge that, as a country, we get back on course and not crawl back where we had already made progress. The next item was on national security measures. I was shocked just as much as most Kenyans when I saw the reported case of Moi Nairobi Girls High School where some people were brave enough to walk into the school and rape girls. The same morning, we got information from a school in my own constituency that somebody attempted to do the same thing. He walked into the school, but he was discovered hiding under a bed. Fortunately, no girl was harmed. Even as I was sharing this, I was told of a school in Murang’a were girls left the school and walked all the way to town. There is a very serious security breech in relation to our girls. I want to urge that police be deployed in our schools to safeguard and protect our girls. There should be clear protocol for those who are care givers for girls and women. Hon. Speaker, with those few comments, I support. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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