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    "id": 1503736,
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    "speaker_name": "Nairobi City County, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Esther Passaris",
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    "content": " Thank you for giving me this opportunity. The National Gender and Equality Commission was founded in 2011 – that is 13 years ago - just after the promulgation of the Constitution of Kenya 2010, with the idea of driving the two-thirds gender rule agenda. To date, we have failed to achieve that. It was established to promote equality and freedom from all forms of discrimination, especially for special interest groups like women, youth, persons with disability, children, the elderly, minorities and the marginalised. I had the pleasure of serving with Hon. Rehema Jaldesa in the 12th Parliament and travelling with her to Isiolo. I have known her beyond the term we served together as parliamentarians. Hon. Jaldesa was known as the lioness in her county. She was the epitome of strength. She had the ability to understand what it takes to be a leader and a woman in a society where women are not empowered, especially having lost her husband through a plane crash and becoming a widow with five children at a very young age. Her ability to make decisions for her people as a woman of strength and her leadership skills got recognised by the male gender. I believe the Commission will have a very good chairperson in her to do its work. However, the Commission will not do its work as long as we do not fund it. As we mark the 16 days of activism against gender-based violence, we need the Commission to come out to help us achieve what we need to achieve in ending gender-based violence across all genders. The Commission is not just about women. It is supposed to deal with issues of all genders, in terms of ending discrimination. We are going to mark 20 years of the National Council for Persons with Disabilities (NCPWD) in Kenya this week. We also have to recognise that persons living with disability are in that bracket. The Commission needs to be empowered. I wish Jaldesa and all the commissioners well in their term. We hope to see more in attaining the not more than two-thirds of one gender in institutions across the board."
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