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    "id": 56728,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mbadi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 110,
        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, it is important that this House considers very seriously allocating funds for civic education on what the Constitution we have today has. Many Kenyans are not even aware of the real contents of the Constitution. About the Bill of Rights, which is actually the cornerstone of this Constitution, it is because of it that Kenyans agitated for a new Constitution. Are we enjoying the Bill of Rights? Have Kenyans started enjoying the Bill or Rights? The Bill of Rights Chapter is not suspended. So, institutions of Government need to start to live the spirit of the Constitution. I want a situation where if you go to a village in Gwassi, Magunga Market or Sidho Market and talk to an old man, he will tell you that he has already witnessed a change in his life because of the Constitution. It is my wish that the various Government institutions start living the spirit of this Constitution. Mrs. Odhiambo-Mabona talked about the gender equity and fairness in general. It is important, but it is also important to be realistic and honest to each other. We should tell ourselves the truth. I do not believe that ladies cannot apply for these jobs because they have been marginalized for a long time. That is not true. These are ladies who have gone to school. Ladies who should be Chief Justice are not just ordinary ladies. They are aware that there are applications to be made. If they do not want to apply, let us not look for scapegoats. Let us encourage ladies to apply for positions. Let us not start scapegoating that they are not aware of opportunities. If a lady who can apply for the position of the Chief Justice does not know that she is qualified, then that is her own problem. Let us not continue to blame people who are not responsible. We have now given ladies a Constitution that recognizes them. We want to make sure that they occupy senior positions in this country but they must make the effort to apply. They must make the effort to ask for those jobs. Nobody is going to give them jobs if they do not want them. Do not blame the men if they take all the jobs because ladies did not apply for them."
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