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    "id": 1065235,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orengo",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 129,
        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
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    "content": "got protected constituencies, which if you use a scientific process and the parameters set out in the Constitution, you find a county may lose two constituencies and they are quite a number in Central, Western, Nyanza, Makueni, Lamu and all over. If you use those parameters strictly, Lamu would end up being a one constituency county. Mr. Speaker, Sir, there is the question on North Horr, which is so huge. It is twice bigger than Nyanza and it is one constituency, yet every time we have a review, they do not get it. They are protected constituencies. Why North Horr cannot become a protected constituency using the same criteria, which made it possible for others to be protected is beyond comprehension. You have Wajir where there is a very legitimate concern about one constituency or two. You have Ijara in Garissa. All over the Republic, there are people who deserve to have these constituencies so that depending on the availability of the number of constituencies, we may not be able to resolve that question. We are now resolving because we are going to have in the National Assembly 360 Members of Parliament and if you do not get the gender balance, which, happily we have attained in the Senate, you have to give a gender top-up. We are going to have a National Assembly, which has got 500 Members of Parliament. In that Parliament, people are going to be talking for one minute. In the Senate, we are going to be about 100, and your usual five minutes will become three minutes. There are burdens that have been created but those burdens, like the one on gender, is a constitutional requirement and is one of the objectives of the Constitution. We have tried over the years to address that question of gender without success. One of the things I can say about this Bill is that it has addressed that question and at the same time it has a sunset clause. This means that they will not be there forever or if you reach a situation like in the Scandinavia where Membership in Parliament is in favour of the women as against men. We may reverse the roles and have more nominated Members of the National Assembly or the Senate who are men."
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