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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Ombaka)",
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        "legal_name": "Christine Oduor Ombaka",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Bill. I support the move towards including women in the county assembly. Women in the county assemblies have no big roles even though they were nominated. I will take an example from Siaya County where nominated women MCAs have no roles within the county assembly. They are there as flower girls and they have no positions. When elections were done, out of the 30 positions for MCAs, only one woman won the elections and is now the Chairperson of the Education Committee. So, she is the only one out of the 29 men who has a position. Women have no role to play within the county assembly. That has shown a lot of discrepancy in the manner in which things are done, that even though nominations were done to address the one-third gender rule, that can be done but if you do not give them roles and responsibilities within the county assembly, then we have not achieved what we want. Having women is good but giving them responsibilities is another thing. So, it is only one woman who is the Chairperson of the Education Committee and the rest do not play any role. This is because nomination to those positions was made when nominated women MCAs were not there. We hope this will be corrected in 2017, and that nominated women will be there in the right time when nomination is being done so that they are included. This Bill is exciting because it shows we are moving in the right direction. As long as we continue to put this in Bills and laws that will be implemented, we are going to achieve the two-thirds gender rule. We have been talking about this the whole of last week and this week. I do not have much to contribute now. This is a good move to the country and that we are beginning to implement the two-thirds gender rule progressively."
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