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    "content": "So, as legislators when we stand here and debate about gender balance, we should think about our own daughters whom we cherish so much. Think about that woman who you have lived with for many years and you have sired kids with. Some are doctors and engineers. Do you want to deny them the opportunity to be legislators like yourself? Sometimes, it is said that you take genes from your parents either your father or mother. Suppose your child was a politician and you, as a male Senator, are going against this Motion, how would you feel? What surprises me most is that a Bill was brought to the Floor of the House by hon. Chepkonga to remove the 47 special seats for women. I wondered why we want to lose the gains that we have made and were upheld in the Constitution and which the President of this country considered as a result he has appointed many women to key positions in the Public Service. I ask parliamentarians to support this Motion so that we move forward. We should not be moving backwards. When we go to these conferences, like the conference in the General Assembly in New York, gender equality and the girl child, is sustainable goal number five. If the country is going to back on that goal, then what is our President, the Speaker or whoever goes to that conference going to report when it comes to the country position? I support this Motion because without women, there is no development. Women are the largest in population. We form more than 50 per cent of the population. Even as we deliberate in this House or walk out when a Motion on women has comes up, the electorate is watching out there. When it comes to the General Election in 2017, women will also gauge for themselves, they will see that these men do not want them. It is up to us, as legislators, to embrace our women and daughters because we know these are clever women of substance but they have been denied that opportunity because of lack of funds. I know very many people out there who are very brilliant but they do not have money to vie."
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