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    "speaker_name": "Mrs. Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. Now that everybody is asking for votes, let me also start by asking the people of Mbita to vote me as the Member for Mbita. Having said that, I think there must be something good about asking, maybe because we are within the 16 days of activism on gender-based violence. So, that is why my good friend Dr. Khalwale is remembering the women and Senator Anyang’-Nyong’o. I will be very brief on this. I want to thank the Budget Committee for presenting this Report. The only thing I would want to say is that, looking at the computation, I wish that they had given a little bit more weight on poverty as opposed to the equal share. I note that the equal share is at 25 per cent and poverty at 20 per cent. The reason is that the incidence of poverty is very high in this country. It defines a lot of people, especially women with the feminization of poverty. Even though I know that we have the Equalization Fund that will deal with a lot of the issues of inequalities, I wish we had mainstreamed gender and disability in this. I can hear Dr. Khalwale getting shocked, but for those of us in the development sector, we know that you can mainstream gender in every sector. My entire life I have been mainstreaming gender. The way you have done; to provide a percentage to that or to, for instance, households that are headed by widows and households that are headed by children, especially if you are mainstreaming children’s issues. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would also wish to request the Chairman in his response, for purposes of record, to indicate that when we are talking about the land area, we are not just talking about massive land, especially in northern Kenya because that is what people tend to think whenever we are talking about land area. But we are talking about vast expanse of lake and sea."
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