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    "speaker_name": "Gilgil, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Martha Wangari",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, and allow me to also take this opportunity to wish all the women a happy International Women’s Day, including you, Hon. Deputy Speaker and the Mover of this very good Motion. I know many women say that they would do better anything that a man can do. It should actually be the other way round: That men should and could do everything that women are able to do. That is the way it should be. I want to quote Maya Angelou: “To the strong women, may we know them, may we be them, may we raise them.” We cannot be them, that is, like our colleague male Members of Parliament. That way, we will be celebrating a whole generation and we will be encouraging even the girls that are coming up that women are leaders everywhere you look. Allow me to second this Motion. I also congratulate my colleague, Hon. Beatrice Elachi, for this very good Motion. I also note that even as we celebrate women in the political sphere, we have come a long way. We have tried very many ideas. We have come up with Bills to ensure that we have gender parity in elective positions. But we have not got there. We still have a long way to go, but we are making strides. Hon. Beatrice Elachi is also one of the people who can show that affirmative action can start all the way from the nominations that we see in this House. I was with her in the Senate in the 11th Parliament. We were then elected in the 12th Parliament. She also became a Speaker of the Nairobi County Assembly and later was elected to this House. So, this shows that affirmative action is possible to ensure that more women are represented in this House. Even as we debate the Presidential Memorandum on the two-thirds gender rule, it should be evident that affirmative action can be achieved. It can be a good way to ensure that numbers are met. The issue of establishment of the EPZ production outlets was done in the 90s and it has gone a long way to ensure that we have incorporated Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) in this country. More than 75 per cent of owned businesses that are registered by the EPZ get incentives to ensure that they get good production, corporate tax holidays, 10 years withholding tax holidays, and perpetual exemption from payment of stamp duty on legal The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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