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    "id": 1028670,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Bondo, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gideon Ochanda",
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        "legal_name": "Gideon Ochanda Ogolla",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to bring a completely different direction to this debate. In as much as I accept and agree that this Sessional Paper at the time it is falling in, is really commendable, the two aspects I want to bring around is the whole issue of timing. This is not the first Paper. We have had this debate before and we have an existing Sessional Paper. When the Sessional Paper No.2 came in, I thought if we were to do a good service to it, we needed to do a very serious audit of what happened between 1999 and 2000 when we talked seriously about gender mainstreaming. In the last 20 years, what has happened? Have we achieved anything and where are the challenges? In my view, these are some of the issues which would have really enriched the Sessional Paper that we are discussing at the moment. There are gains we have had and they need to be recognised. There are sectors where women have done very well and really surpassed men. Also, there are sectors where men are still ahead of women. These are some of the questions that needed to have been raised. For example, look at what is happening in some sectors like the informal banking. Banking is still dominated by men, but informal banking is dominated by women. What does this mean in real sense? The informal banking that we are talking about, what is it? It is more of what we have in the merry go rounds and table banking. But if you do a critical analysis of what this means, it is one area women are losing big. The amounts of money they are ploughing back in the small groups is much higher than formal banking."
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