{"id":1222008,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1222008/?format=json","text_counter":76,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Kiambu, UDA","speaker_title":"Hon. John Waithaka","speaker":null,"content":"Hon. Speaker, popularly known as Nya Bungu (Daughter of the Bush), the late Hon. Grace Onyango was a woman of many firsts. She was the first female to climb up the ranks of the political system paving the way for women in leadership in Kenya; the first Kenyan female Mayor for Kisumu, a position she assumed following the passing on of the then incumbent Mathias Ondiek in 1965; the first woman to sit in the Hon. Speaker’s Chair, albeit as Temporary Deputy Speaker; the first woman to serve as Secretary-General of the Luo Union (East Africa); the first woman Assistant Commissioner of the Girl Guide Association; and the Chair of Child Welfare Society, Kisumu District. She was also one of the founding trustees of the National Fund for the Disabled of Kenya in 1980."}