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    "id": 1028653,
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    "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. From the outset, I am happy to see Hon. Millie Odhiambo in the House. I do not know if she is through with her honeymoon in Naivasha or it was cut short. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I support this Sessional Paper on representation of gender. It is from the Committee in which I sit. We have canvased it at length so that we have more women representatives in both the three arms of the Government. Hon. Sabina Chege has said that what a man can do, a woman can do better. We have witnessed this in our schools when they defeat us in exams. They need these opportunities. They are better managers than most of us. If you have Kshs100 today, as a man, you may not know what to do with it. However, if you give that money to a rural woman, she will buy sugar, salt and cooking oil. I do not know how they balance. We need them so that we can jumpstart the economy. In political parties’ representation, I will expect that we start from the top. Even this Paper addresses this issue. As Hon. Osotsi puts it, it does not only condemn Parliament, but also the Cabinet and parastatals, so that we have a two-thirds gender rule applying in all the institutions. I can say, for instance, in the Cabinet, we may not need the BBI. We only need to say that the President and the Deputy President are men, so, let us have a majority of the cabinet secretaries being women. I am shocked that those who are claiming to be fast readers are not aware that the CWR positions have been taken to the Senate. The National Government Affirmative Action Fund (NGAF) component that is under the purview of women has been done away with. If you take resources from any section of the society, it means you are not supporting them. You are demeaning them. The women are going to the Senate, but the cabinet secretaries will not come from the Senate."
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