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    "speaker_name": "Taveta, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Naomi Shaban",
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        "legal_name": "Naomi Namsi Shaban",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to start by congratulating the head of the 2018 delegation to the 62nd Session of the Commission on Status of Women conference at the United Nations in New York. Human rights are women rights and women rights are human rights. You cannot separate the two. You can only look at them and read about them from the same page. I call upon my colleagues to embrace the fact that if women are not empowered then, certainly, the whole country will be lagging behind in terms of development and decision- making. So, I celebrate the following people: Our President, His Excellency President Uhuru Kenyatta for embracing the fact that women are very important and that they have to be at all levels of decision-making. I think there is still room for improvement. So far, so good. I think he has done very well. In terms of what he is working on in the Big Four Agenda, if you look at it and the fact that he talks about universal healthcare, it is the woman who carry more burden in a family. That being one of the Big Four Agenda, it is good. He did not start today. He earlier on put in an issue of free maternity in the Jubilee Government. It has worked very well. I celebrate him. I also want to celebrate him on school fees. The fact is that school fees has been a big burden to parents. I know the Government is still working on it to streamline some of the teething problems which are there. I believe that he is going to succeed in what he is set out to do. Most of the parents, especially mothers, carry this burden. Fathers pay school fees but mothers are the ones who 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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