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    "content": "Justice Bill because His Excellency the President, when he was here on 22nd March this year during the continuation of this Session, said that this is one law that will be advanced by his administration. I have every responsibility to seek to engage the Members of Parliament, to continue debate, to seek meetings, so that we can understand that, even if the resolution reached in Mombasa is that we merge it with the Human Rights Commission, they should be merged in a manner that protects the interests of our Kenyans. But I do not want to say that at this point because I am still looking at the matter and discussing it. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, on the issue of no more than two-thirds of any gender being in legislative bodies, I want to tell hon. Sophia Noor that when you look at Mutula, trust me, my position is that it should be fifty-fifty. I ceded ground in all these negotiations to accept the principle of one-third or two-thirds depending on whether you look at the cup as half empty or half full. My party stands for fifty-fifty. My party nominated a Kenyan woman as a running-mate for our Presidential candidate, but the Kenyan women did not vote for her. We probably are going to do the same when we come to next year’s elections. Therefore, I do not want anybody wasting time coming to the Ministry of Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs to convince us on the principle of two-thirds gender because the Minister is led by ODM-(K) which stands for fifty-fifty in all these systems. Therefore, I accept the historical injustices that hon. Sophia Noor has mentioned. We must correct that. Hon. Njuguna has spoken extremely well and we will develop this law bearing in mind the issues he raised. So did hon. Affey when he said that we should emphasize equality, and I will be bringing amendments to emphasize equality, so that this is not just dealing with gender. Allow me to ask Kenyan men and some women also who are in doubt about this Commission; what will happen when at some point the Kenyan population will vote, out of the 290 Members, 280 women? Who will fight for the men at that point? It can happen if Kenya continuous to produce women of this caliber; the ones I am looking at like hon. Odhiambo-Mabona, who can even attract men all the way from the South and the men accept to come and live and settle here. We also have hon. Wavinya attracting men all the way from the western part of the continent. What will stop Kenyan women from controlling 90 per cent of the House? Who will defend Mutula at that point? Therefore, when we talk about National Gender and Equality Commission, we are going beyond the sex. We are actually looking at the equality of our human beings."
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