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"content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as a free Kenyan, I am free to declare my interest. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I used to have a wife those days. However, there are merchants of evil and hate in the name of Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA) who came and convinced this woman that, \"if you apply this and that law, you would get two-thirds of your husband's salary, and if you took his child to the street, you would get Kshs70,000 from his salary too\". My child, who was named after my father, Lawrence Oja Ojaamong, was plucked out of my house in South C Estate. He was taken to a children's home in Mathare and locked up there for six months. He was removed from a high cost school in Belle Vue to a low class school for six months, until I got a court order to return the boy to his original school. This was simply because FIDA wanted to get money from donors. I wrote to the donors and right now they are suffering because they are not getting the funds. These are merchants of evil! If women have to move forward, these merchants should be discarded from our society. Otherwise, women will keep on hoping that they have a right to get two-thirds of their husbands' salaries and Kshs70,000 for the child's upkeep. If you keep on living on hope when other people develop, you will never move forward! The Government should discard this evil and give women the necessary resources to develop themselves. When it comes to education, indeed, our cultural practices tended to be biased against women. It is not that it is men who save women biased cultural practices. It is the Government which will do that. Let us give our girls more bursaries than even boys In that way empower them academically. They should get scholarships to study abroad. You will find that even Ministries headed by women themselves are not giving women scholarships. So, I wish to appeal to our women to lead by example wherever they are heads. If you are a Permanent Secretary, consider women first. I have related with very many women. I even appointed some to some positions. I managed to nominate a number of women to the local authority in my district. The Mayor of Busia Municipal Council is a lady, whom I nominated to the local authority. But who is fighting to bring her down? It is her fellow women and not men. It is women who are very bitter with her. I have another lady who was the first woman Chairperson of Teso County Council. Who brought her down? It was her fellow women. So, women are their own enemies. They should not blame their lack of advancement on men per se . Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, coming to this House, some women were nominated to it. Let me not talk about elected women. I must congratulate the elected women elected because October 19, 2006 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 3085 they work very hard and proved to their constituents that they were responsible enough to be in this Parliament. But the nominated women have been saying that they came here to promote women issues. Almost four years down the line, what have they brought here about women?"
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