{"id":824331,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/824331/?format=json","text_counter":338,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Nairobi CWR, ODM","speaker_title":"Hon. (Ms.) Esther Passaris","speaker":{"id":12475,"legal_name":"Esther Passaris","slug":"esther-passaris"},"content":"about 2,900 rape cases. Out of the 2,900 rape cases, 50 per cent were under 18 years and out of those, 50 per cent were under 10 years. So, I am wondering, as we travel and do all these things as a country, are we actually determined to deal with poverty? Are we determined to empower our women? We have all the funds, but what is the point of having a fund? A woman gets money from the Women Enterprise Development Fund, puts up a kiosk and the next day, the Government demolishes it. So, we really have issues to deal with as a country. I think going to all these conferences, signing all the agreements and being party to various UN laws, at the end of the day, the only way this country will move forward is if we start dealing with the poor. It is the poor of this country, the women and children, who put us in office. As a Government, I think we have done wrong because we have been insensitive. We could have dealt with women and youth very well by saying: Okay, we want to decongest Nairobi and put highways. We want to get rid of buildings that were put up corruptly and deal with entities together."}