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    "id": 1211688,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, it is up to this House to debate and see how we actualise this matter. Over time, maybe it is the male gender that will need affirmative action. You never know. If you look at our society today, the boy child is more endangered than the girl child. Therefore, those of us who sit in this House as men, we must know our days are numbered. We must, therefore, ensure that we make amendments to the Constitution that will protect not only our daughters, mothers, aunts and sisters but also protect ourselves and our sons because we are endangered. There is threat to the boy child today due to alcoholism, drug and substance abuse and general neglect by society. This country moved towards empowerment of the girl child 30 or 20 years ago. She is so empowered today. That is why we can confidently count many Members of Parliament, including those in Homa Bay County who are ladies who have been elected by people in their constituencies. Many ladies lead big corporations like East African Breweries. Many other big corporations in this country are under the leadership of very able women. Therefore, it is unfair that political units or establishments continue not to have ladies at the forefront of the leadership of our country. Therefore, I want to encourage Members. Let us not look at this two-thirds gender rule or principle as something that targets women. It targets both women and men. It is a gender principle but not women principle. Gender is not women but both genders. Fortunately, we do not have issues in this country that we see in the West of the transgender people. We are talking of the two genders only, that is, female or male."
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