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    "id": 1017115,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1017115/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ndawagwa, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jeremiah Kioni",
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    "content": "As the Chairman of the Constitutional Implementation Oversight Committee (CIOC), I confirm that we will soon be calling the Chief Justice - I hope before he retires - to appear before the Committee because the Judiciary has failed to implement the Constitution and specifically the two-thirds gender rule. We want him to account to Parliament why the Judiciary has failed to implement the two-thirds gender rule. That is the work of the CIOC. We will also be summoning the Executive because the Committee has been given the mandate by the Constitution to ensure that every institution, including the Office of the Chief Justice, has implemented the two-thirds gender rule. I am saying this so that we can get it clearly as Kenyans. It is not just Parliament. Narrowing the issue of the two-thirds gender rule to Parliament is looking at it in a very shallow manner. I would want us to look at it broadly because that is the intention of the Constitution. Many laws were passed by this House during the 10th Parliament and the 11th Parliament as required under the Fifth Schedule. I thought those who would care would have actually commended Parliament. I have not seen parliamentarians who have passed so many laws within such a short while. The 10th Parliament and the 11th Parliament did a commendable job but nobody out there has said that we helped in a big in implementing the Constitution. Certainly, we have some areas to work on, but if you read through many of the Acts that were passed by the 10th Parliament and the 11th Parliament, you will find specific clauses that require operationalisation so that we achieve the two-thirds gender rule. So, in my opinion, there is no one specific Act of Parliament that is required for us to pass so that we can bring to fruition the issue of two-thirds gender rule."
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