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    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Millie Odhiambo-Mabona",
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    "content": " Yes. It is Homa Bay Primary School. I am very grateful because of that and I do not suffer some very limited ethnic thoughts and inferiority complex. I have grown up with very diverse people. I could as well have grown up in the City. I know you will also identify that Hon. TJ Kajwang’ also went to the same school with me. A number of people here were with me in the same school. Yes, it was a serious school. It has very senior and serious people in this country. I consider myself really a Kenyan because of that. I am very ethnically liberated. I celebrate my ethnicity as a half Luo and a half Suba who is married to a Ndebele. I celebrate that with a Botswanan daughter. I am actually global. I am not limited in many ways. I have also worked a lot in the human rights sector. By working a lot in the human rights sector, I am an expert on issues of equality and equity. Not only am I honoured to have been one of the founders or the founding fathers and mothers of the Constitution, I am also a founder of the National Cohesion and Integration Act. When Hon. Martha Karua brought that piece of legislation in the House when we had just come from a period where we lost over 1,200 Kenyans to ethnic clashes, I remember even the title or the name that was given to the Bill had something to do with ethnicity. I brought an amendment even to the title. When Hon. Duale attended the launch of my book recently, he was actually saying that I could amend even the title. In his words, he said that Millie can be very cantankerous. For people who do not understand me, sometimes, I look like I just bring amendments for the sake of it. I mainstream certain issues in Bills. In fact, in this Parliament, I do not think I have done as well as others. No Bill would pass me in past Parliaments because I mainstream issues of human rights, gender, equity and equality. That means you will see me talking to issues of youth, women, children, minorities, the marginalised, and older persons. I also talk about the issues of persons affected by HIV and AIDS for a long time. We now have different groups that have come in. I have ‘kind of’ stepped down a little because Woman Representatives and the others are nominated to speak to those issues a lot. I just want to clarify to the Committee. The original Bill did not have one-third when it came. I am the one who proposed an amendment to increase one-third. The idea is that we understand Kikuyus are the most populous. However, can you imagine of going into an office where 100 per cent are Kikuyus? It does not reflect the nation and the spirit of the Constitution that says that our appointment should reflect the face of Kenya. In fact, it does not just talk of the face. It talks about the face and ethnic representation of the country. Therefore, I want Hon. Baya to listen to this. It is true when you say that the local community should, at least, be the majority. 70 per cent is actually a majority. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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