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    "id": 1240825,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "I had an engagement this morning with Cabinet Secretary Aisha Jumwa, the former Member of Parliament for Malindi, on the question of the two-thirds gender rule. I am aware that all women parliamentarians have been keenly following this debate and the work going on in the Executive and efforts of the civil society. I attended a forum of women parliamentarians at Radisson Blu Hotel sometime last month on this question of the two-thirds gender rule. I plead with Members of the ad hoc Committee we established, under the Chairmanship of Hon. Chepkonga and the other leaders in the Senate, to now embark on the real work of ensuring that the two-thirds gender rule question is resolved constitutionally as well as creation of the Office of the Leader of Official Opposition. Hon. Speaker, as Hon. Mbadi and you have said, it is time we got good and courageous leadership in the House. Leadership that will not abrogate its responsibilities by walking out of the House. We need leaders who will lead the Minority Party, whether they are outside or inside the House. That is why I strongly support the proposal to create the Office of the Leader of Official Opposition. It gives the country an opportunity to listen to policies and ideas alternative to those of the Government in office at any particular time."
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