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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kasanga",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Sylvia Mueni Kasanga",
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    "content": "Senator has said, they should not just be any pads but they should be pads of good quality because we do not want an influx of funny pads that cause women to have all sorts of ailments and diseases. In as much as we are zero rating the manufacturing of pads, the Government has to come up with a clear programme to ensure that every girl child in primary and high school has free sanitary pads for them to go through their course of education with dignity and no worry. In fact, when I talked with those girls, I heard of a case where a male teacher was the one in charge of dishing out those sanitary pads. Earlier this week we were debating on teenage pregnancies and how vulnerable our girls get, whether it is their male teachers or the citizenry around them. There was also a case, which I read in the newspaper, of a headmaster who dishes out these things. Since he knows the menstrual cycles of the girls, he is then able to catch them when he wants. He uses the sanitary pads as a pre-condition and sleeps with them. Therefore, you can see how girls get so vulnerable over things that are not their choices. As leaders, we have to remove these barriers to their future. Madam Temporary Speaker, I second this Motion with my entire being and whole heart because it is frustrating, as a woman, that we live in a country where other women cannot access something as basic as a good quality sanitary pad. Even as we are push for local production, our students in both primary and secondary schools must get these sanitary pads for free. This is not choosing where they come from or their social status; sanitary pads in schools should be free and enough. The girls should not be told that they only have one pad per day. That is my prayer today. Madam Temporary Speaker, I second this Motion and congratulate Sen. Halake for bringing it to the Floor of the House."
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