{"id":1538133,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1538133/?format=json","text_counter":347,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Migori County, Independent","speaker_title":"Hon. Fatuma Mohammed","speaker":null,"content":" Thank you, Hon. Speaker, and Ramadan Kareem to those fasting. I appreciate the confidence that the President of Kenya, His Excellency President Ruto, and His Excellency Rt. Hon. Raila Amolo Odinga, have in us. I appreciate the gesture, especially being first-timers in this House with Hon. Irene Mayaka and having been given the opportunity to be chairpersons of Committees. It is a great honour; we do not take it for granted. I appreciate that we have four women Chairpersons and four women Vice-Chairpersons even though we are not yet doing well enough as the Constitution requires. Men are more than women. I know it is now realignment time, but even as you do so politically, also do it with a gender-sensitive touch. I saw Hon. Ichung’wah congratulate Dr Nyikal. I looked him in the eye, reminding him I am also here. I am a girl. I went in unopposed. I am always in the House. Please instruct him to come and say, ‘Congratulations!’ Thank you."}