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    "id": 1060705,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1060705/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 376,
        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "These issues that perplexed the most brilliant man on earth or the most brilliant man recorded on earth still perplexes us today. You would be surprised and amazed that everyone is supporting Hon. Kaluma yet we still seem to be taking gendered lines such that women are moving in one direction and men in one direction. Why is that the case? It is because of the way we are made. There is a retired judge who challenged us as women and said in a 60-page ruling that one of the reasons women went to Beijing was as a basis of rebellion against men. We did not go to Beijing as a basis of rebellion against men, but because the issues of equality have always persisted in the society even in biblical times. Let me quote the Book of Numbers, Chapter 27 where we have the amazing five daughters of Zelophehad, who fought for the rights of inheritance because they were being excluded. They went before a man of God and they were allowed. They changed the law of Israel so that even women who were not married in their community were then able to inherit. However, Hon. Kaluma is bringing a very difficult one and the difficult one should actually be difficult for us as women. It is difficult because we are the ones who have been calling for The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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