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    "id": 1526457,
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    "speaker_name": "Manyatta, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gitonga Mukunji",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. When you speak after Hon. Millie, you feel a little bit down because of how she speaks passionately about the other gender. On the Joint Report of the National Assembly Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs and the Senate Standing Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights on its consideration of the Report of the National Dialogue Committee (NADCO) and the Report of the Multi-Sectoral Working Group on the realisation of the two-thirds gender principle, first, after perusing through it, it is very realistic on the recommendations it has made on the NADCO Report. Many of the proposals are on creating of new offices, including an office of the leader of opposition, and an office of Prime Minister. These are very serious recommendations that can change the way we govern this country. In my interactions with the people, whenever there is an issue that involves increasing the number of leaders of this country, their uproar is deafening, to say the least. Our current governance structure accounts for almost 70 per cent of our Recurrent Expenditure, which includes salaries. Inevitably, that is one of the things that are needed to govern a country. The recommendations on creation of more offices and the issue of getting gender parity in Parliament must go through a referendum. I want to inform this House these recommendations will not get support from the public. They will fall flat on their faces if they go on a referendum. The Constitution of Kenya, 2010 checks on fairness in representation. However, its framers forgot that fairness in representation will come with a cost on usage of resources in our budget. This House needs to consider dropping these two reports and concentrate on what really touches the lives of Kenyans and what can improve their lives. It may look good now to be talking about accommodation of people in Government, and accommodation of certain individuals in the leadership of our nation. However, I believe that the conversation that should be taking the centre stage right now should be on how we can improve the pockets of Kenyans. This House has had its fair share of coming face-to-face with the wrath of the public on unpopular Bills. We need to be very careful not to find ourselves in situations we experienced in 2024. I support and recommend election preparation and ensuring that there is fairness in terms of representation in the IEBC leadership. We shall be debating this. I know it is going to…"
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