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    "id": 1017054,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1017054/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Eldas, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Adan Keynan",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Adan Wehliye Keynan",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I agree with those who have said that we need to have unity of purpose. This issue of gender equity has been around since time immemorial. When the Chief Justice of the Republic of Kenya issued that edict - whether it was administrative or judicial, I do not know - what came first to my mind is what happened to this very important principle called national interest? There are certain things that cannot be documented or written. In any civilised country, national interests outweigh any other interests whether written or unwritten. We just have one by-election pending in Msambweni. Even the body that is tasked with conducting elections realised that with this pandemic, holding one special election was difficult. Here, somebody comes and says that we should go back for a general election. In many other jurisdictions, there used to be something called judicial gerrymandering. Ideally, the other two arms of Government are supposed to be off-shoots of Parliament. That is what the framers of the current Constitution had in mind under Article 1. Even the framers of the current Constitution did not want to take an explicit position on the issue of gender equity. This issue was referred to the Judiciary. The Judiciary never wanted to take a position yet they expected Parliament, which is a product of one man, one vote, to come up with a formula that none of them, whether in the civil society or the Judiciary wanted to take a position on."
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