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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Deputy Speaker",
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    "content": "Order! Whereas the Chair is not the final arbiter on matters of the Constitution, the Chair is obligated to protect the Constitution to the extent which it can. In the event that out of the 47 county seats in the next election where some seats have been set aside for women and one county does not have a woman candidate, that seat is not going to be filled by a man. Other mechanisms will have to be used until there is a woman available for that seat. Under the circumstances, the Chair takes a very serious view of the lacklustre manner in which the Government approaches the operationalization of the Constitution. In this case, we all know that in any interview anywhere today you can get hundreds, if not thousands, of Kenyan women who qualify to become subchiefs. Either you did not advertize it properly or they felt that they did not have a chance. Under the circumstances, the Chair is going to defer this Question, and at the same time direct the relevant Committee to move with speed and report back--- Do we have any Member of the Committee on Equal Opportunity in the House today? I am directing the Committee to move with speed, interrogate this matter and report back to this House in a maximum of two weeks. The Question should be listed in the Order Paper two weeks from today. In the meantime it is our hope and prayer that the Government will have done a bit of soul searching to address this issue. Next Question; hon. Kutuny!"
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