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    "id": 1211546,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Saku, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ali Raso",
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    "content": "Unless this is entrenched into the Constitution and we look for a formula to get enough women to this House, it will be impossible for them to get the chance to occupy the highest offices in this land. We should not appear to be giving women favours or handouts. Let them be given the opportunity to exercise their leadership in this House. The thinking that the President has brought on board is noble and doable and as a House, we must rise to the occasion. Finally, with regard to the issue of the Leader of the Official Opposition; people can deny it but for a country without opposition, the Government can tend to do what we saw happening after the handshake. Initially, we had a very strong and robust opposition in the last Parliament but, as soon as there was a handshake, the opposition was killed and the Government of the day did whatever it wanted to do with hubris and a despotic approach to many issues. For that reason, I think when we borrow from other jurisdictions, which we have done before for instance from the United States of America (USA), or the United Kingdom and we have seen that it is the opposition that puts the Government on its toes, that will be a good move."
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