Entry Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 1304611,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1304611/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 474,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mungatana, MGH",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": null,
    "content": "how to take care of ourselves, because we need to be good men to marry good women in future. In fact, I can dare say that she laid a foundation in leadership in Tana River of which I was a specific beneficiary. When I vied for the seat of a Member of Parliament many years later, many people would tell me: “If you are the son of Martha you do not need to campaign here, we shall support you”. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I mentioned this because women in our country have made great contributions. Since those days of the United Nations, breaking the barriers and bringing the one-third rule, we have made great progress, even in this Senate. In the Constitution, we created a special provision to make sure that we never fail in the one- third gender rule. We have come a long way, but this particular session that our colleagues attended was focusing on the digital. In seconding this Report of the 67th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women, some of the things that they talked about, we would not have been talking about them or even visualize them many years ago. At the time of the UN Decade Conference in Beijing, or even the time that the agitation started for women rights and the one-third rule. This time now, we are talking about women in the space of technology. I am impressed by what they did when they went there. In particular, I was very happy to see the Kenya's country position on this matter. This is because they summarized that in Kenya we have set four pillars; the digital infrastructure, digital government service product and data management, digital skills and digital innovation. We have come a long way in our country. We have accepted women leadership and now we are accepting women in the technological sphere. The latest move by the Kenya Kwanza Government led by President Ruto was launching of smartphone costing as little as Kshs6,000. It is a fantastic idea, which has gone a long way towards helping the women working in the shops, mama mboga and those doing small-scale businesses. With that kind of facilitation, we are helping our women to take one-step ahead of the others. I emphasize that Kenya as a country under the leadership of the President has done very well. Recently even our own political party the United Democratic Alliance (UDA) went out of its way to amend its constitution so that if the Chairman is a lady the Deputy must be a gentleman and vice versa. That follow for all the positions. This reflects the kind of thinking that we have as a Government. We thank the delegation that went there. We pray that through this report, where there is action to be taken, it will be moved in the various Ministries. I congratulate them. Keep up the spirit. There should never be a reverse gear on the agenda issues. It does not matter how much resistance you get on the way because we have all come a long way. With time, this country will be better than it is today."
}