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    "speaker_name": "Njoro, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Charity Chepkwony",
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    "content": "Let me start by thanking you for giving me this opportunity. Most of us have sat here from noon. We were expecting to contribute, but we could not get a chance. For now, let me just support the proposal which has come to this House in relation to the amendment of the Constitution. There is a lot of interest in it and that is why we are supporting it with a lot of passion. It touches on issues of the two-thirds gender rule, the anchoring of the NG-CDF in the supreme law, the creation of Office of Leader of Official Opposition and matters of the affirmative action funds. There is a lot of interest in all these matters in this country. Allow me to say that the two-thirds gender rule has been the talk for many years. Most of the times when it has come to this House, even male Members of Parliament have run away. Therefore, the culture of people thinking that it is only women who can be permanently vulnerable in this country might be wrong. In some years to come, it will be the opposite. Therefore, I propose that we all support this amendment. I will be proposing that we all support the proposal of this amendment because it will once and for all sort out the debacle of the two- thirds gender rule in this House. Why do I support the idea of creating an Office of Official Opposition? As most of my colleagues have said, when the winner wins, the Opposition goes home empty-handed despite the big percentage of votes they may have garnered. We do not just want to have that office created for now. We want to have it in place many years from today. Therefore, having an Office of Official Opposition will be very good for purposes of solving many nasty things going on in this country today. We would be very happy to see people seated in an office, thinking positively and taking positive actions instead of waking up every morning and going for demonstrations on the streets. Therefore, I support the creation of that office. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I have much support when it comes to the NG-CDF. I have been re-elected in Njoro Constituency in Nakuru County. When I was elected in 2017, I made a pure decision to utilise my NG-CDF funds very well. I was very happy when one of the colleagues said we have many challenges with many busybodies being against the NG-CDF. Therefore, this is a very good platform for us to support anchoring of the NG-CDF in the supreme law. I would like to testify that that in my Njoro Constituency, I have over 100 projects constructed for schools. In my first term, I purchased seven school buses. It had never been seen previously. It is still with the NG-CDF. I have managed to construct so many administration offices for chiefs, Deputy County Commissioners and security offices for my officers. I am continuing. It is also good to note that most of the busybodies who have been fighting the NG-CDF in this country do not even know the composition of what we do with these funds. On climate change mitigation, which has become really necessary since the phenomenon affects all of us, the environment management mandate aspect of the NG-CDF has given us a chance to buy free seedlings and have them planted in the compounds of schools and other learning institutions, and also have civic education in relation to the environment. We also have a chance with the same NG-CDF to support sports. We have supported a lot on emergencies and many other matters. Hon. Temporary Speaker, there are many colleagues who want to contribute to this Motion before it is too late. I just stood to say that I fully support the proposed amendments to the Constitution to make sure the NG-CDF is anchored in the supreme law and the two-thirds gender rule issue is sorted once and for all. With those remarks, I support."
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