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    "id": 1493500,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1493500/?format=api",
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    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Millie Odhiambo-Mabona",
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    "content": "are definitely registered and in the wrong place. That is the reason why I will propose amendments. I know even though we want to follow the Mwongozo guidelines, we must also still ensure that we have the two-thirds gender rule observed. We know that the leadership at the Kenya Association of Manufacturers is a woman. However, they are not cemented there. They will serve their time and they will move. We never know whether the leader next time will be the Cabinet Secretary for Mining or something else. We do not know. The person who will come after that may be a man. If we say that it is the CEO who comes in but we do not ingrain the issue of gender, it means we can have a system where every person sitting is of male gender. There are a lot of good things coming out of Africa, so let us set the agenda for the world. Let us do the right things for the world by setting up good governance standards. If countries like America cannot do it, who said that the South cannot set the agenda? Let us set the agenda by telling them that we are more inclusive. We are gender inclusive, we are inclusive of youth, and persons with disabilities. The amendment that I am going to bring has to do with inclusion because there are parts that we may not change, like the gender of the Principal Secretary because they are appointed. When we are talking about these bodies, then you can tell them to appoint in a manner that reflects the ethnic face of Kenya, or rather the face of Kenya by ethnicity, that represents gender, youth, age and all those factors. I support with amendments."
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