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    "id": 1162541,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Samson Kegeo Ongeri",
        "slug": "samson-ongeri"
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    "content": "used to be there and frustrations that people used to go through seeking for title deeds is no longer pain in the neck but a thing of the past. It took a woman to be ingenious in that place. My own daughter, Carol, is one of the best in Britain. She is a Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of a company. She scaled the heights and brought the Turkwel Wind Mill in Turkana and the Kenya Electricity Transmission Company (KETRACO) transmission lines. She oversaw that as a civil engineer. Today, Kenyans can access clean energy that we need so much from various places. That include the power mills that we see in other places. We can cite many others. In this House, the National Assembly, county assemblies, and other places, we have had great women. At whatever level, our women are performing well. I have flown with Kenya Airways (KQ) several times. Sometimes when there are no KQ flights, I fly Emirates. The courtesy on board is by our women who have brought us the pride. You will always hear that Kenyan women are courteous, sociable and accommodating in the sense that even when you feel distressed in flights, they are able to relieve your distress in terms of talking to you in a polite and calming manner and the tensions go away. When we talk about equity in sharing, whether they are resources, parliamentary or political positions, or in social life, we must be alive to the fact that we are first and foremost equal before the eyes of God. Nobody is born a lesser being than what we are today. Therefore, as individuals and as Kenyans, we should do away with the one-third rule. I want to pay tribute to our women in Kisii and Nyamira counties. They are celebrating the International Women’s Day led by Hon. Janet Ong’era and many other people. As I speak, they are marking the day in Kisii Town. I want to wish them well. I wish I were there, but because of other duties in the Senate, I pay tribute to what they are doing today and encourage them to turn up in big number in the forthcoming elections. I can cast my vote for a woman to occupy an advantageous position, so that we gain from their experience and expertise. We are celebrating International Women’s Day because we know that all of us are born of a woman without any exception and therefore we must accept the realities of life. Sometimes men brag too much and yet, at the end of the day, you were born of a woman. You are born by your mother and, therefore, we celebrate all the mothers. I celebrate my late mother even in death because what I am today - from the grassroots where I grew, from the poverty level where I grew to the level where I am; achieving the national and international status in my career both in the academic, political and in the diplomatic circle is not a mean achievement. I only wish she was alive today to see what the son she brought up has been able to achieve. Therefore, I pay a great tribute to my late mother because of what she did for me to be in this honourable Senate, and be able to pay tribute to our female women colleagues. Madam Temporary Speaker, this is the day we should all be happy. At the end of the day, even as we celebrate this day, when we get home, it is the women who are going"
}