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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, from the outset, I would like to thank you for bringing this very important Motion. You are the most befitting candidate to do this because of your leadership position on women issues in this House, the National Assembly and also in the nation. You have been a trailblazer on matters of leadership, women and youth empowerment. It just befits you to have done this. When we discuss matters of women, in most cases, they are trivialized, for instance, the perception that these are just women, why do they want to take our space? Madam Temporary Speaker, I was one of the few students in the University of Nairobi to study a course called: “Women in the Legal Process”. It was very enlightening to study all those theories that are related to why women have been left out for a long time. There are those who are positivists and others are radicals. There have been many positions expounded as a result of looking for a solution on the marginalization of women. My professor then, Prof. Kameri Mbote, who was also my supervisor and a well renowned professor of law in this country, I think the first woman professor of law and Dean of the Law School at the University of Nairobi, was very instrumental in forming my thoughts particularly on what exactly we need to do as a nation to ensure that women are part and parcel of the economic development. Madam Temporary Speaker, Sir, President Obama put it very well; that, you cannot really want to develop when half of the population is being denied an opportunity to contribute to nation building. If we deny women jobs, we are denying the nation the knowledge that comes with those women who could have jobs. We also deny the nation revenue that comes with that. We are denying the nation taxes; more people would have been taxpayers for us to develop our country. Therefore, women issues must not be trivialized. They are very serious. I come from a constituency where a woman was a Member of Parliament for 10 years. I am proud to say that I was one of the key supporters of hon. Linah Jebii Kilimo when she The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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