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    "id": 605642,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ethuro",
    "speaker_title": "The Speaker",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 158,
        "legal_name": "Ekwee David Ethuro",
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    "content": "Order, Senators. We have two more petitions to go. IMPLEMENTATION OF THE ONE-THIRD GENDER RULE We have a Petition to the Senate by Major (Rtd.) Joel Kiprono Rop concerning the one-third gender rule. Hon. Senators, pursuant to Standing Order Nos. 221(a) and 225(2)(b), I hereby report to the Senate that the Petition has been submitted, through the Clerk, by Major (Rtd.) Joel Kiprono Rop, a citizen of Kenya and a resident of Bomet County concerning the one-third gender rule. As you are aware, under Article 119(1) of the Constitution, every person has a right to petition Parliament to consider any matter within its authority including enacting, amending or repealing any legislation. In his Petition, the petitioner states that the one-third gender rule as enshrined at Article 81(b) of the Constitution has become difficult to implement. He proposes the following as a “viable way forward” to unlock the deadlock:- (1) That, the Senate be reconstituted by transferring to the Senate the 47 elected county women representatives presently sitting in the National Assembly and restricting nomination to the Senate to only persons with disabilities and other minorities. (2) That, the National Assembly be reconstituted to include two women nominated from each county by the county assembly; one being young and the other elderly and restricting nominations to the National Assembly to only persons with disabilities and other minorities. Hon. Senators, as you are aware, the issue of attainment of the one-third gender principle as enshrined at Article 81(b) of the Constitution is a matter that this House has been alive to. Indeed, only last month, a consultative meeting on the matter was held to"
}