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"speaker_name": "Kakamega CWR, ODM",
"speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Elsie Muhanda",
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"content": " Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to give notice of the following Motion: THAT, aware that in Kenya about 11 per cent of teenagers are engaging in sex before their 15th birthday with an estimated 47 per cent of teens already sexually active before the age of 18 years, which is the legal age of consent; further aware that Kenya’s adolescent birth rate is 96 per 1000 women, with 15 per cent of all adolescent women having already given birth with 3 per cent being pregnant with their first child; concerned that the sexual activity is encouraged by the proliferation of the internet and mobile phones, poverty and the conservative attitudes combined with traditional values which tend to have parents shying away from discussing sex with their young ones while other traditional cultures encourage early marriages; acknowledging that young persons in the country do not get sex education to make sexual choices; and recognising the need for a comprehensive and age appropriate sex education from the age of six years, this House urges the national Government, through the Ministry of Education, in collaboration with other relevant actors, to introduce, institutionalise and entrench sex education in both primary and secondary school curriculum and ensure that it is beyond policy and legal framework, and encourage the development and building of more boarding schools, especially for girls."
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