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    "content": "Nairobi or Nyanza. When I look at all these names, I do not see somebody from a province because there is no province. I will ask: Is there somebody from Mukurwe-ini? And so, next time, I will be lobbying harder so that when I have two other names coming here, it is not about them being women. By the way, men must also be worried because you are also soon likely to become a minority if you do not take care. You should be worried. I stand here to support these nominees, not specifically because they are women. I am a father of girls only, but I know there are fathers of boys only and boys deserve a chance also. I support these nominees because they are sufficiently capable. They are adequately qualified and are entitled to these appointments, but we are also overplaying the issue of being minority and marginalized. Some of the people who are saying are marginalized are in big positions in the Government. They could even be the majority. Some of the genders that you say are marginalized, you could find that even in Parliamentary Committees, there is no tokenism. Women are achieving like hon. Wanjiru Chege from Murang’a County. She is achieving and was duly elected by her Committee to lead issues of education in this country. First and foremost, she is a qualified Kenyan and a human being. The issue of being a woman is secondary, in my perception of her ability. Therefore, hon. Deputy Speaker, like I said recently of your leadership in your African Caribbean Pacific and European Union, where the whole of Europe and the ACP countries recognized that Kenya can produce somebody not just because she is a woman or because she has a PhD, but because she is able to hold her audience spellbound because she is delivering. Then when they see that it is an African from Kenya, the country that is being stigmatized from elsewhere, they say that that is good. Then when they hear that she is from Sotik, they say: “Well, that is even better”. But first of all, let us see the qualifications of these individuals because they deserve. So, the ladies who are in this House, issues of tokenism are not going to sustain leadership. Hon. Kajuju is reminding me of her leadership on the miraa issue in Meru and her hosting the most memorable and historic meeting that has never been seen since Meru was created, it was not because she is a woman from Meru, but because she is a Kajuju who has a lot of jujus with solutions. I beg to support."
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