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    "id": 332502,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Nuh",
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        "legal_name": "Nuh Nassir Abdi",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I also with to support the Motion by the Departmental Committee on Labour and Social Welfare that Mrs. Gumato Ukur Yatani be appointed as a member of the National Gender and Equality Commission. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, when hon. Ekwee Ethuro said that a woman from a pastoralist background suffers double tragedy, it seems some hon. Members of this House are amused and maybe it is because of the position the woman holds in a pastoral community of so much burden but maybe without much appreciation. However, even more importantly is that the people from the pastoralist communities or hardship areas have never been appreciated for a long time and thanks to the new Constitution. At least they can lift up their heads and start fighting for their rights even if they do not get them. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the actions that have been happening for the past few days just shows that the mentality of some of our citizens and state or public officers has not yet tuned to the reality but the citizens have been accorded much more rights that they are much more aware. At least even if they do not get it, they have the platform to demand for whatever is their right. People from Northern Kenya should never be treated like they are lesser citizens of this country. They should never be treated as if they are an infringement and are part of this country that should never be desired. They should be appreciated for the role they play in building the society that we all are and we all appreciate to be Kenyans. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, such a Commission that will look at issues of gender and equality would never have a better person than Ukur Yatani who must have known and suffered what inequality, gender parity and gender discrimination is because she has come through all that. With those few remarks, I support."
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