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    "id": 1122508,
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    "speaker_name": "Wajir CWR, PDR",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Fatuma Gedi",
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        "legal_name": "Fatuma Gedi Ali",
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    "content": "is no mention of gender. It is so unfair even from the proposed name. We feel you are killing or belittling the gender commission and taking it under the human rights commission. That way, we are killing the hopes, aspirations and efforts of the gender commission towards Kenyan women. I urge the Committee to go back to the drawing board and be sensitive to women, and not only to women but to the Kenyan people. Women are mothers, sisters and wives. They contribute tax. They are 50 per cent of the population of this country. You cannot ignore such a population. My humble plea to the Chair is to go back to the drawing board. If we have a problem with the Commission, you can bring a report based on performance. Look at how the human rights commission has performed. To me, they have turned into activists. When they want to please certain quarters, they comment on issues. When it is about ordinary Kenyans, they close their eyes. We have had a lot of killings, gender-based violence cases and injustices. We have even had police officers killing ordinary Kenyans. The human rights commission ought to stand with Kenyans. Instead, they have decided to become politicians and activists for certain political parties. Those are the issues that we need to address. In terms of performance, can we look at what the gender commission has achieved since it was formed vis-à-vis what the human rights commission has achieved? Let us not just come up with a Bill to merge two commissions that perform two distinct roles. I feel we are not fair to Kenyans and to women. Where are we going? The only hope we have to raise our issues with confidence and privacy is the gender commission. In 2022 we are talking about empowering women by having a lot of women in politics as governors and elected senators. We are looking at how to achieve the one-third gender principle. Merging the gender commission with the human rights commission is like taking back our gains and demoralising women who want to participate in politics. As I conclude, I want to urge the House and those who believe in women leadership and those who fought for the one-third gender rule that this is not where we want to go. This is not where we want to take our daughters. This is not where we want to go as a country. We are demoralising Kenyans. Kindly let us go back to the drawing board and be sensitive to reality. I thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker."
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