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    "id": 1472739,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1472739/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kisumu West, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Rozaah Buyu",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I am the Member for Kisumu West Constituency. I belong to the Departmental Committee on Administration and Internal Affairs. First and foremost, I want to speak as a woman who is also a member of MYWO. This is the largest women grouping right from the grassroots. It cannot be said that elections cannot be held for over five years so that the women can get an opportunity to put in new leadership or to confirm the leadership that they have. MYWO deals with all aspects of women issues right at the grassroots. Why is it that it is always so difficult for the leadership to let women go through elections so that women can affirm them or have a say as to who should lead them? If you look at it now, MYWO is not as strong as it used to be, because when leaders stay in power for too long, they become lethargic. They become used to what they are doing and deny the organisation an opportunity to invigorate leadership and to allow new young leadership to take over. Yet, we know that the world is changing and the needs of women, like everybody else, are also changing. As much as I belong to that Committee, MYWO needs to have an election. The reasons for them not having an election are not well explained by my Chairperson in that response. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I thank you."
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