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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orwoba",
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    "content": "beneficial to their businesses? How are the women faring in every single programme, including the diaspora jobs which have been introduced? I see the Cabinet Secretary for Labour and Social Protection going around campaigning and telling the youth to go for the jobs. I am always asking, how are the women of Kenya being represented in those programmes? Are we just looking for drivers and manual labourers, which is exclusive to the male? Are we saying that we want to line up all the young men because we want to be manual labourers because they are strong and have muscles? Where are the women of Kenya in that programme? As I stand here today as a beneficiary of the affirmative action, I support this latest move to ensure that we execute the two-thirds gender rule. I am also cautiously observing if we are going to be intentional in seeing the execution of this report from the amendments, proposals, all the way to its fruition. When it comes to matters of the women agenda, we are known to just talk. In fact, I have stopped accepting invitations by all the Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) and International Non-Governmental Organisations (INGOs) who call us for breakfast. I have told them that we have had so many breakfasts. We have been drinking tea and having lunch. We like coming together as women and say this should happen. We must now get down to business and action on the things that we have been proposing. Therefore, I want to support this. I conclude by saying that in 2025, the two-thirds gender agenda might be about having more women in office. Many years ago, we did not even have one woman governor. Maybe in the next 10 years, the two-thirds gender rule will be about having more men or equal representation of men in these spaces. Let us not think that this is just a women's affair because once we get to the balance where we are 50-50, definitely at one point, we are going to be talking about ensuring that both the men and the women have equal representation. We might surprise ourselves and by having nominated Members of Parliament in the Senate who are men coming because of the affirmative action. Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I submit."
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