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    "id": 616480,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/616480/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "Right now, we are grappling with how to make Parliament constitutional. Instead, the President is going ahead in the Executive to give us an unconstitutional list. As a person who has in the past spoken for women, I will stay on course and support the women agenda. If the list is unconstitutional for that reason, I cannot support it. I would also want to say that under Article 232 of the Constitution and especially because of the history that we went through--- I happen to be one of who you would call the founding mothers of this Constitution. One of the things that we said because we wanted to ensure that we do not go through ethnic violence was the issue of resource allocation that was showing its head through politics. Those were issues of resource allocation and part of it was on appointments. Those appointments do not show the face of Kenya as required under Article 232 of the Constitution. In fact, not only these ones as somebody would be challenging me and saying: “How do you represent the face of Kenya or gender out of five?” Hon. Speaker, if you look at the constitution of the Cabinet as a whole with these numbers added, they do not represent the face of Kenya as envisaged in the Constitution. Neither do they represent the gender representation or disability issues that are required under Article 232 of the Constitution."
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