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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mumma",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for the opportunity to speak to this Report. First, I commend the team that they were able to come together from across the divide and discuss key issues that affect this nation. I hope that in future, we can get to hear, listen, agree or disagree to each other, and see how to move in a manner that respects the laws of this country. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I will not dwell much, but I will speak to a number of the issues in this Report. The most important one is the cost of living for Kenyans. I hope that all leaders, particularly in the Legislature and the Executive, will see the need to implement matters relating to the cost of living for Kenyans as the most important issue. Otherwise, all other things amount to negotiations around personal interests of the leadership of this nation. I did not see serious, tangible issues around cost of living. I would urge that the Executive makes an effort to demonstrate to Kenyans that this topic in this report is the most important one and is the one that Kenyans would want to see. Once the cost of living starts coming down, many will be able to see that we care about them as leaders. As it would be, negotiations or any consultations should first be about the interest of the people of Kenya. The second important thing for me is the issue of the two-thirds gender rule. I am disappointed that NADCO elected to relegate a responsibility that was part of the mandate they had; the issue of the two-thirds gender rule, to give it aside to a multisectoral committee instead of addressing it. Mr. Speaker, Sir, NADCO Members heard the public. They received views from various Kenyans. Women of Kenya went and gave views around the two-thirds gender rule. For them to have concluded that they will not address this issue and put it aside is an insult to the women of Kenya. It is relegating this issue to make it a footnote on something that is very serious. They are doing this at a time when for the first time in this country, we have a head of State who has put it in writing that he would want to see the issue of the two- thirds gender being resolved. I understand all we can do about this report is speak about it, but we cannot suggest any amendments. I would like to call the head of State and the Leader of Opposition to confer, and if necessary, to recall the Committee of NADCO to sit, even if only for one week, in order to relook at one of this agenda item, which they decided to throw out instead of addressing. Remember, NADCO is a Report of a political consensus. If that political will is there from both sides, they can call these people. They did not come from South Africa and elsewhere. They are within Kenya. They can be told to go back and finish their homework because they did not address one of the Terms of References (TORs). I call on everybody to take this seriously and ensure that matters of the two-thirds gender are included, particularly in any Amendment Bill that will be drafted as a result of the NADCO Report."
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