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    "id": 1211226,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kacheliba, KUP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Titus Lotee",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Speaker, I support the idea of actualizing the two-thirds gender rule. The best way for us to achieve the two-thirds gender rule effectively is if it is done through the political parties’ system. Parties will come with their lists of members having met the two-thirds gender rule. As it is in our Constitution, it is not possible to force the electorates to elect women or men to meet the two-thirds gender rule. So, we need a hybrid system. What we can do now, as Parliament, is to allow for more nominations of more than thirty women Members into this House. If we do that, we will be dealing with a Constitution that was not thought out properly. I support that we go the hybrid way and, at the same time, look for better ways of ensuring that the two- thirds gender rule is achieved. Otherwise, we will always be a House that is not constitutionally constituted. We know that in the 12th Parliament, the former Chief Justice said that, as a House, we were unconstitutional. We remain unconstitutional not because we wanted it that way, but because raia elected more men than women. There was no way we could have forced them to elect more women and yet, the Constitution says that we must fulfil the two-thirds gender rule. The lawyers in this House need to come out clearly. If we do more nominations, we will have a bigger budget for the people of Kenya. However, at the end of the day, we need to be a Parliament that follows the Constitution. We should not breach the same Constitution that we swore to protect. Lastly, there is what is called “the Senate Oversight Fund.” We need to call it “the Parliamentary Oversight Fund.” It is not a Senate Oversight Fund because as Members of the National assembly, we are also supposed to oversee the national Government functions within our constituencies. How will we do that? The NG-CDF is not an oversight fund. It is a development fund. It is not a Member of Parliament fund. So, as we support giving Senators oversight funds to oversee counties, Members of the National Assembly are also supposed to be given an oversight fund to oversee the national Government functions within the constituencies. Thank you. I support."
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