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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Ochillo-Ayacko",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I apologise to those who were following my debate and could not do so because of the poor connection. For avoidance of doubt, I am in support of the Constitution of Kenya (Amendment) Bill. I support it with all my heart and my belief. I indicated that there are a few things that were not included that the people who sent me to this House would have preferred. My people are the people of Migori County. Nevertheless, my platform is a national Senate in Kenya and what benefits all Kenyans also benefits me as an individual and other Kenyans that I represent. My people of Migori in Nyatike Sub-County would have preferred another constituency. They have the population and the desire and were not included. It is my prayer that in my lifetime they will get an opportunity to have an additional constituency. My people in Kuria West also wanted an additional constituency so that they are represented by one man one vote, as has been the mantra of the populated areas. I heard Sen. Ndwiga say so, I believe and agree with him. What I want to plead with my colleagues whose counties are benefiting by way of getting additional constituencies is that they should not forget those who are supporting the amendment to the Constitution now that they are benefitting. There is a tendency of those who benefit to forget those who may not have benefited at the time of such benefits. I urge fellow Senators whose counties are benefiting to remember those who may not have benefited, but merit the benefit. Mr. Speaker, Sir, where I come from, the wise and the old have always told us that if you are a man or a woman and you want children, you marry. If you are a woman, you get married to a man and if you are a man, you get married to a woman. As you look for children and in the past days people used to literally look for children, those who had difficulties in getting them would go to spiritual leaders to do so and some would go to certain lengths that there is no enough time to describe. However, we were advised that when you see a pregnant woman and your wife is not pregnant; do not do anything harmful to the pregnant woman because if you do so, when the turn of your wife to get pregnant and deliver comes, people of evil intention will do likewise to you. I support the counties that are benefiting, hoping that when the turn of Migori County and that of other counties arrives, they will not kick the stomachs, tummy or wombs of our wives, so that at the time our expectation is aborted. We are people of goodwill, love and patriotism. I suppose and hope that the same patriotism and goodwill will be extended to us and not in the future when we will not be alive, but in the near future when we come to look at the totality of equality of representation."
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