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    "id": 1017228,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David ole Sankok",
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        "legal_name": "David Ole Sankok",
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    "content": " Thank you very much Hon. Speaker. You are a mobile encyclopaedia when it comes to the law and the Constitution of this country. I have taken your advice very keenly. When I brought that amendment, I did not know why it died. I went to the Committee responsible and presented my case but they never came back to me to advise me on the same. Today, I have gotten that advice. Why are we always talking about one particular Article in our Constitution? Why should we allow one Article to have a massive impact on our governance system? Article 54 of the Constitution talks about employment of persons with disabilities. We have not implemented that. The Judiciary itself is not well-constituted in terms of the two-thirds gender rule. It was easier from that direction. We have never as a House called Maraga or those responsible and even castigated them. The President has appointed Cabinet Secretaries. We know that the two-thirds gender rule is in our Constitution. Have we ever called the President and threatened to impeach him - because we have the powers - because he has not rightly followed our Constitution? We have not. Protect me from my party Majority Whip because I respect him so much. He is my friend and will remain my friend forever. Sometimes we fail as a House because if we had used the teeth that the Constitution has given us, those other arms of Government would have known that we exist and have the teeth to bite. Now, they have the teeth to bite us. I urge them to bite us so that the pinch will ensure that we also call them out in the next Parliament. Why have we as a House never tabled a Motion or a Bill because of lack of gender representation in the Executive? Looking at our political parties, the Jubilee party leader is a man. The deputy leader is a man. The Secretary-General is a man. We have never called them here. It is the same in the Orange Democratic Movement. We have never called them here. We vet Cabinet Secretaries yet the Cabinet is not properly constituted. We approve them because we rubber stamp the decisions of the Executive. Let them bite us this time round because we have failed to bite them. Na ukiamshambwa alalaye, atakuuma."
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