{"id":805373,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/805373/?format=json","text_counter":187,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. (Ms.) Mbarire","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":78,"legal_name":"Cecily Mutitu Mbarire","slug":"cecily-mbarire"},"content":"I rise to support this particular Vote. For a long time, we have been treating gender issues as issues of the lips. We now want to see action in terms of real money being put in that department. On matters of gender, Kshs4 billion is just a drop in the ocean. Matters gender affect both men and women. There is a real issue, and I am sure the Secretary General of the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) will agree with me that the boy-child is endangered. I know that the Ministry of Public Service, Youth and Gender is going to initiate a programme to ensure that we empower the boy-child. I hope the Members will not treat this one the way they treated the other one. This is as critical as the other one. Please, let us pass this amendment."}