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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "Madam Deputy Speaker, I never called anybody an activist. I said do not take an activist approach. Those are two different things. In fact, my credentials and my party are very clear. My county of Bungoma has the record of the highest elected women, courtesy of me. Out of 45 wards, I have 13 elected women, only two (2) shy of the two thirds majority because I gave them affirmative action and supported them. There is a young girl who left university and went on to defeat 16 men. She is a Member of the County Assembly (MCA) because the party gave her a ticket and supported her. We will continue doing this. Change the psyche of your parties. Do not queue on lists to be nominated. Ask your parties to support you. In areas where parties are strong, when they give you a ticket, 50 per cent of your election is done. That is what we should be encouraging. As Sen. (Dr.) Ochillo-Ayacko has said, we can go home tomorrow and many of us will come back the same people. We will not have changed our gender. We will be the same. How do we achieve this? We need a national conversation. If it requires a referendum, let us go to it. However, I want to caution the President that it will be an extremely dangerous misadventure to try and dissolve Parliament. Parliament has a fixed term and nobody can interfere. The bad old days when you would be on the Floor speaking the way I am speaking and there is a news flash that the President has dissolved Parliament and your speech ends there, are gone. Parliament determines its calendar. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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