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    "id": 1067886,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kisumu CWR, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Rozaah Buyu",
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        "legal_name": "Rozaah Akinyi Buyu",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to continue with what I was saying before we went for lunch. For avoidance of doubt, I fully support the Constitution (Amendment) Bill of 2020. The Constitution conclusively deals with the issue of the two-thirds gender rule. We know that this has dogged this Parliament and all Kenyans at large, for a long long time. But the proposed amendment goes even beyond the expectations, especially in the Senate where it offers a 50-50 per cent representation for both genders. It is not just in the percentage. It also gives women equal voting powers as men in the Senate. Added to that, the Senate has been given powers to oversee all revenues that are generated within the counties. This means that Senators will have a direct influence on any project that will be going on in the counties. In mind, I read Article 43 where we have the right for housing, the right for comfortable housing and the right for water. All the rights that affect women and men in the grassroots will, in this amendment, be effected by Senators. If you look at the National Assembly, the proposed amendment also offers a mechanism in which women will be nominated into the National Assembly. I dare say that in 2007 and 2013, both years when I contested and received so many votes, I could not be nominated because there was no mechanism. Now, the Constitution gives us a mechanism so that whoever is nominated into the National Assembly comes with a whole load of supporters behind them. This will give a strong voice to the women who will be nominated. I want to say again that I support and fully support this constitutional amendment."
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