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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. I am glad that you are noting that I am gender sensitive and so is my Chair. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, as I second, I want to state that it is indeed important that we pass the team because we need to move with speed and start the election process in good time so that we do not have a repeat of 2007. This country needs stability. I will be very brief. When these individuals undertake their work, they should remember to put this country first and not ethnicity. I have heard a lot of people talk about corruption as being the biggest malady in this country. I beg to differ; I think our biggest problem in this country is ethnicity. Until we deal with it, we will never move as a country. We need to look at people for their competences and we need to include people. So long as you always have a culture of exclusion, then we will always be at war with each other. Sometimes when we say things jokingly in this House, I think we even need to move away from those jokes. Sometimes they are not very nice. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, since the Chairman has spoken to the expertise, I will not go into it. I just want to re-emphasize what we have said. The CIOC is constitutional compliant on gender issues and on regional issues. This is what I am talking about; equity in inclusion. Whenever we start thinking that every group that is excluded always feels marginalized, that is usually the greatest source of conflict. The conflict will be by age, gender and region. As women, whenever we talk, we look like we complain too much. This is because we are few. However, for those who come from North Eastern, I hear them complain all the time. The same feeling they have for exclusion is the same feeling the women of this country have. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, it is very unfortunate when a woman works hard and reaches the level that Ms. Martha Karua has reached, we hear them calling her an honorary man. I am told before I came in, male Members were saying that Martha is equal to ten men. Therefore, if she is put in that Committee, she is equivalent to ten men and you do not need to add anybody. If that is the case, then I would urge that in future if we stand and I do not agree with the Speaker’s ruling; and we are two of us, if mine is not ten like Martha’s because I have not had the same years in Parliament, then put it at five. Let mine be equivalent to five men, Rachel is five and Martha’s ten. Those are 20 Members."
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