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    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Millie Odhiambo-Mabona",
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    "content": "We are very different as men and as women. Therefore, let us keep to our lane. Let us love our brothers. Let us love our boyfriends. Let us love our husbands. Let us love our uncles. Let us love our fathers. Similarly, please, also love your sisters, love your aunties, love your mothers, and love your grandmothers. It is not a competition. Everybody knows that the world is skewed against us. What I am telling Hon. Kajwang, in a very crude manner, is that he is not wearing my shoe. Only the wearer of the shoe knows where it pinches. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I have said it in this House before that there were days that I would not come to here to debate a critical issue. Why? Because I would be in a pool of blood; because I would faint. I was being admitted in hospital every month for three to four days. Hon. Kajwang’ has not had to go through that experience, and he expects me to go out there and compete equally with him! There is a load that I am carrying as a woman that you have never carried and you do not know how to carry it. You will never know how to carry it because you have the privilege of being a man. The same way in the US and in other countries, there is white privilege. A white person cannot lecture a black person because he or she has not walked in the shoes of a black person. Similarly, a man cannot lecture me about being a woman because he does not know what it is like to be a woman. Many of the things that bedevil women start with “men”, namely, ‘menopause’ and ‘menstruation.’ You are a necessary evil in our lives. That is why we love you, we marry you, and we have you as boyfriends. I want to lecture you, but also plead with you, my brother and grandson, do not make it look like affirmative action is for elite women. Hon. Leshoomo did not know how to read and write when she came to Parliament. She could only speak in Kiswahili. What was so elite about her? Is the fact that she could not read and write elitist? She came from Samburu, where she was born and raised. I am just from receiving an award for my work in advocating for women issues. I was with Chief Justice Martha Koome, and I told her that I was not happy when she said that our arguments during the election petition were “hot air.” However, I also told her that when it comes to women’s issues, my tribe is woman. I told off the people who are attacking her. They should focus on governance issues and not try to hound her out of office simply because she is 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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