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    "id": 1376455,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1376455/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof) Kamar",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 33,
        "legal_name": "Margaret Jepkoech Kamar",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to join my colleagues in, first, congratulating the NADCO for very nice negotiations. I congratulate them because we are reminded of the IPPG days. The return of something similar to IPPG reminds us that Kenyans know how to negotiate and that they love peace. I congratulate the Hon. President and the former Prime Minister for choosing the route of peace. This is important to the country because we refuse to be completely divided during elections. That is why the margin between the two candidates has never increased. Not only that, you will find that since the new Constitution came in, there was one formation in 2013 and a different one in 2017. This started way back in 2007. This means that Kenyans are very close to one another and it is difficult to divide them into a majority and a minority. We need to notice that the way of peace and negotiations is the way we should always go. We laud His Excellency the President and the former Prime Minister for choosing that route. Madam Temporary Speaker, I join colleagues who have talked about the gender issue because apart from recognising gender as one of the outstanding constitutional matters, the report did not give us what we expected – a legislative proposal. For the other issues, legislative proposals were given to move their agenda further, but in the area of gender, nothing moved. This is very sad because entrenching the gender issue should have been one of the key outputs of this report. As Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale said earlier, I ask myself, what the fear of women is in this country when it comes to leadership. It is like everyone is running away from them and fears them. You ask yourself, why is this? We need to start interrogating and maybe we need some researchers to do this, so that we understand where the fear is coming from. Madam Temporary Speaker, the real reason the gender issue was raised in the Constitution of Kenya, 2010, was the fact that there are areas where the male gender will interrogate better than the females. There are areas where the female gender will do better than the male gender when it comes to development. This is recognised worldwide wide. However, it is sad that in the region, Kenya has continued to lag behind."
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