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    "id": 274286,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mrs. Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to support and in doing so, I want to wish the women of Kenya a belated happy Women’s Day. It was Women’s Day unfortunately and so I can only wish women and perhaps wives, girlfriends, grandmothers and aunties a happy women’s day. It is also a women’s month. So, I wish them a happy women’s month, especially because Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker is also a woman. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I also want to say the Constitution now recognizes participation of women and inclusion of women in elective and appointive positions. Make it real and use the time when we will be on recess to consider ways of making it real so that as women we do not keep coming here and pushing this agenda and sounding like we have a broken record. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, we resumed our sittings earlier than normal because of constitutional Bills. Unfortunately, the record that has been set is not very good because we have only passed very few of them. I would want to encourage the Executive, as the Vice-Chair of the Committee on the Constitution Implementation Oversight Committee (CIOC), that please when we come back avail to us many Bills. We know we have very many contentious Bills. One of the reasons why the Finance Bill has been pushed aside is because hon. Members are not very comfortable with some of the provisions relating to devolution. You know how long we spent on just one of those Bills and the memorandum by the President also in relation to devolution. We want to move forward. So, let the Executive bring us Bills on time, so that we do not go back and forth on these issues. We have comprehensive consultations and we engage with the Executive--- Unfortunately the Minister for Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs has left; he used to do a good job of it. I do not know why he has left. If the Executive does that then we will save time. Again, I am hoping that the Executive will take time to reflect. What we witnessed today was not very encouraging or pleasing where you try to gag members of the Back Bench not to express their views and where we want to make a person bigger than God, we only serve one God. So, please, treat human beings as human beings and consider issues seriously Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, finally, I want to encourage hon Ojode that his view about elections in 2013--- Let it just remain his own personal view and a joke; let him not share it with his other colleagues because somebody might just pick it up. In this country, Kenyans think that as Members of Parliament we are trying to extend our time. Some of us would want to come back as elected Members because we have been called mere nominated Members. Of course, we stand tall and are proud as nominated Members, because we do better work than a lot of elected Members. If I look around now, a lot of us who were nominated are here but elected Members are not here. So, we do a very brilliant job. Very finally, I would want to encourage the Minister for Fisheries Development to consider that we have gone through a drought period and there are some places where"
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