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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Millie Odhiambo-Mabona",
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    "content": " On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Let me take this opportunity to wish all the women a happy International Women’s Day. That is not my point of order. My point of order is actually to the leadership of the House. We have been discussing this issue that is ongoing on the Floor for a long time and we all know that it is headed nowhere. We are actually conversing yet Parliament is a very serious House. We are not supposed to converse. You either have a Bill or a Motion that is passed and has an end. This has no end game. We are like women conversing in a market. When are we going to have serious House business? We want Bills that relate to issues that concern Kenyans. Remember inflation is high and people are hungry. When are we going to deal with real issues that touch Kenyans, instead of amorphous issues which are neither Motions nor Bills? I do not know what they are. It is like jelly, neither here nor there. I know Hon. Ichung’wah was a very effective Chairman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee. I do not know if he was given the wrong docket, because since he became the Leader of the Majority Party, he has been bringing here amorphous things. I even have a Bill which you can bring here, the Family Reproductive Health Care Bill, which has already matured. You can bring it so that we discuss serious issues affecting reproductive issues. We do not have to see a Senator going to the other House with stained pants. Let us discuss issues that will move us forward. Some of us are very serious and want to move forward. We do not want to come here just to converse in the manner of there should be this- and-that, or there should be Cabinet Secretaries, or there should be women representation without a Bill. We are just conversing. We either have a Bill or a Motion in place. Otherwise, we are not spending our time usefully."
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