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    "id": 158952,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/158952/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mrs. Mugo",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Public Health and Sanitation",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 85,
        "legal_name": "Beth Wambui Mugo",
        "slug": "beth-mugo"
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    "content": "We cannot continue paying lip service to democracy. It is part of democracy to make equitable representation. It is part of the Government’s policy to ensure that 30 per cent of people in any institution are women. This House comprises many women. There are only four women out of 21 Members. It is not only ridiculing Kenyan women but it is also showing a nation which has been left behind by other nations in the world, as far as democracy and respect for women is concerned. We protest strongly, as women Members of this House, against being paid lip service where His Excellency the President who is the leader of one party side has advocated the policy of women representation of 30 per cent. The Right Hon. Prime Minister, who is the leader of the other side, has also said the same in public, in the Government and everywhere. Why should this House then not honour this stated Government policy? The leaders of the parties who made this list and forwarded it to the House should account to women of this nation and other marginalized groups on why they must continue with this trend. They must put their action where their mouths are! With those few remarks, I beg to oppose."
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