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    "content": "not want to be disappointed because we know the temptations that revolve around people, especially when they live out there. I believe Ms. Lupita is hearing us from this august House. We want to wish her the very best so that she lives a good life and gets good managers of her affairs so that she may continue to inspire many others. Madam Temporary Speaker, the Mover of this Motion did it at an appropriate moment when we are celebrating the International Women’s Day. Maybe you do not know why we are celebrating the International Women’s Day. It is because the journey of women in the struggle for leadership has been a long and winding road. It is still long, but we need the support of everyone. If I can remind you, in 1985, we had the first United Nations Women meeting in Kenya, that is the Nairobi Forward Looking Strategies and then we came a long way to Beijing where we identified the very critical areas of concern. From there the United Nations took over the issues of equality and gender violence. Now even in this House we have 18 women serving and in the other House we have quite a number of women, although we have not reached the two-thirds number that we want. We are still fighting and we have seen what Ms. Lupita has done. This is a strong message to say that women are here and need to be recognized. When it comes to recognizing our efforts, I think that the Government of Kenya and the awards committee should seriously give the right medals to the right persons and not do so on friendly basis. This is because in most cases those who deserve to get them are not getting them. So, it should be done on merit. Madam Temporary Speaker, I would like to thank the Mover for bringing this Motion at a very appropriate time. Some of us will be going to attend the Commision on the Status of Women (CSW) and hope that maybe we will meet Ms. Lupita in the United States, the first Black African to get an Oscar award. Madam Temporary Speaker, with those few remarks, I beg to support."
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