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    "id": 354435,
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    "speaker_name": "The Women County Representative for Wajir",
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    "content": "(Hon. (Ms) F.I. Ali): Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. My name is Fatma Ibrahim Ali, the County Women Representative for Wajir. First and foremost, I want to thank the people of Wajir for electing me to the Eleventh Parliament in order for me to represent them. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I want to confirm that the Presidential Address was powerful and motivating. I have taken audit of how the President used human rights and principles of human rights. Having gone through the Address, I admit that the President has entrenched critical principles like participation, transparency, accountability, inclusiveness and specific targeting of groups, especially women the youth, persons with disabilities, breastfeeding mothers, pregnant women and other groups. Therefore, the President was very sensitive to human rights concerns of the various groups in Kenya. We can, therefore, classify the President as a human rights activist. Where I found some gaps in the Presidential Address is in the second paragraph, where the President said that he recognised the increase in the number of women in Parliament, which I totally disagree on. If you look at the number of women who have been elected at the constituency level, you will realise that the figure has declined as compared to the Tenth Parliament. In my view, the President was just focussing on the 47 affirmative action women seats. The President did not state clearly what steps his Government intends to take to increase the gender quota representation in this House. With the 47 affirmative action women representatives in Parliament, we are just 19.7 per cent of the total membership of this House. Kenya claims to be the economic giant of East Africa, but it is lagging behind in terms of"
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