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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, go to the Constitution, Article 98(1)(b) and (c). The party list nomination that political parties have to submit shall include 16 women members who shall be nominated by political parties according to their proportion of Members of the Senate. Article 98(c) says: “Two members, being one man and one woman, representing the youth.” But the Elections Act leaves out Article 98(d) which is nomination for two members, being one man and one woman, representing persons with disabilities. If the Attorney-General does not bring an amendment to include Part “d” in subsection 3 of Section 34 of the Elections Act, then there is no way the disabled members will be nominated into the party list by political parties. Their rights which have been given by the Constitution again shall have been taken away. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I urge hon. Members not to look--- That is because today, you are a favourite leader of a political party. Hon. Millie Odhiambo has stated that our political parties have not reached a stage of maturity in terms of democracy. Many of us in this House have been victims of being locked out of political parties because of our body size. Some of us were locked out of political parties because we did not have money to bribe leaders of political party leaders. If that is to be cured, then Kenyans have to be given the free conscience to elect leaders who will not have been selected by political parties and political party leaders, but who would have come to the elections from the list of Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) to be elected by Kenyans on merit. I support."
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