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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "When for example, the committee chaired by my distinguished learned junior, senior counsel, Sen. Omogeni says that the schedule to this Constitution on constituencies is unconstitutional and then tells us to pass it, what are we being told? It is unconstitutional but pass it! When they tell us that the provision on the Judicial Ombudsman is unconstitutional and then they leave it there. What are they telling us? Ordinarily, committees of Parliament, when they bisect and dissect a Bill, they bring a report to guide debate, but they also bring amendments to the Bill that will be consistent and in consonance with their findings in the report. One would expect that the Omogeni Committee would have brought some amendments that will come at the next stage when we go to Committee Stage so that we can consider them. Changing the Constitution is not something that we should do casually. My colleagues, the womenfolk, both here and out there have been clapping their hands and smiling uncontrollably about the issue of 47 women coming to the Senate. I have no problem with that, but I expected that the women of this country would look at this more critically. The empowerment of the Kenyan woman by creating the 47 county representatives to the National Assembly came with empowerment of resources. Now that those women have been uprooted from the National Assembly and dumped in the Senate with no corresponding resources, who is going to speak for the raped woman or the defiled girl? Who is going to give money to young girls for bursaries? Who is going to set up centers for rehabilitation for bastardized and abused girls? Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is not true like my colleague Sen. Nyamunga said that the money is following the women. There is no money to follow the women and it is not going to be there. Those women---"
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