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    "id": 1017391,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Omanga",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Millicent Omanga",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I am most obliged. I have heard colleagues use a lot of skepticism, saying that the 2010 Constitution was hurriedly passed. You know that the journey of the new Constitution started way long ago, from 1997 to 2000. In 2005, we went to a referendum where we did not pass the Constitution. In 2009, the new Constitution was passed. It was overwhelmingly voted for. It was six million people who voted for it and two million people voted against. For colleagues to claim that the Constitution was hurriedly passed, is not true. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, in our county assemblies, the Two-Thirds Gender Rule is complied with. Why is it that in the National Assembly and the National Parliament is where we have a problem? Most of the time, when we come to the Two- Thirds Gender Bill, most of the colleagues are egocentric and selfish. They do not want to hear anything to do with gender because they have taken gender to be a woman affair. What they do not know is that the ball might be in their court next time because it will come a time where women will be elected to Parliament and the boy child or the male gender will be pleading to be included in the numbers in Parliament. There is also an argument about the calendar. Article 102 is about the election of the President. We went for a repeat election, where our President was elected again in November, 2017. Members of Parliament were elected on 8th of August, 2017. There is a difference of three months. They want to put it like the five years is cast in stone. Does it mean that when our term ends, the President will still continue with his term for three months, so that he finishes his term? That does not suffice. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I want to urge colleagues that since Sen. Farhiya has got a Bill on the Two-thirds Gender Rule, we need to fast-track it. I urge my colleagues to support the Bill by Sen. Farhiya and Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr., so that we are compliant. Otherwise, we cannot support the dissolution of the House, so that we go back 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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