{"id":2615,"date":"2023-02-15T14:18:02","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T14:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africaparrot.com\/?p=2615"},"modified":"2023-02-15T14:18:02","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T14:18:02","slug":"kenyan-government-sacks-senator-from-parliament-over-alleged-period-stain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africaparrot.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/15\/kenyan-government-sacks-senator-from-parliament-over-alleged-period-stain\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenyan government sacks Senator from parliament over alleged \u2018period stain\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A Kenyan senator is reported to have been sacked from parliament after attending a session while wearing a white suit stained red in an apparent menstrual activism campaign.<\/p><div class=\"afric-content\" id=\"afric-4009564629\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.schools.nyc.gov\/hello?utm_source=ecm-digital&#038;utm_medium=cpc&#038;utm_campaign=lac-dex-2026&#038;utm_content=french\" aria-label=\"French&#8212;300&#215;250\"><img src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/africaparrot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/French-300x250-1.gif?fit=300%2C250&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"  class=\"no-lazyload\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Gloria Orwoba, of the ruling coalition, is due to table a motion on a bill to provide free sanitary pads on Wednesday as part of efforts to end period poverty.<br \/>According to reports, senators disrupted Tuesday\u2019s afternoon session to draw the Speaker\u2019s attention to Ms Orwoba\u2019s \u201cinappropriate dress code\u201d.<br \/>But the senator protested saying: \u201cI am shocked that someone can stand here and say that the House has been disgraced because a woman has had her periods.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaker Amason Kingi ordered the senator to go change her clothes before she could be readmitted to the chambers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHaving periods is never a crime\u2026 Senator Gloria , I sympathise with you that you are going through the natural act of menstruation, you have stained your wonderful suit, I\u2019m asking you to leave so that you go change and come back with clothes that are not stained,\u201d the BBC quoted speaker in a report<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Outside the chambers, Senator Orwoba confirmed the report to journalists saying \u201cunfortunately I have been kicked out because I\u2019m on my period and we are not supposed to show our period when we are on our period and that is the kind of period stigma girls and women are having outside.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Kenyan senator is reported to have been sacked from parliament after attending a session while wearing a white suit stained red in an apparent menstrual activism campaign. 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