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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Midiwo",
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        "legal_name": "Washington Jakoyo Midiwo",
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    "content": "So, I am supporting her. However, we cannot keep misunderstanding the one-third rule and not confront it. This issue had even gone to court and even the issue of the Cabinet not being properly constituted in the Government. I know what is bothering Hon. Millie. If you take, for example, Hon. Naicca here, he is in one Committee. Hon. Millie is in the Departmental Committee of Agriculture, Livestock and Cooperatives, a Member of PAP and all these things. We cannot do reverse marginalisation. Nothing in this Committee is new. This is the old Committee. We, as the leadership, agreed for purposes of expediting continuity to keep the old Committee. She never raised this issue three years ago. This is not meant to marginalise anybody. Let me appeal to Members, even for purposes of debate, that there are people sitting across this country whose salaries are tied to this Committee today because of the regulations. So, we want to plead with you, even before tea, let us finish this thing, so that regulations are done and this country moves forward. If you look at what is happening across the counties, there is so much corruption. Nothing is working except the CDF. This Parliament cannot go behind and go over trivial issues. I have had occasion to look at the socio-economic audit draft report and it says that this one-third gender rule must be relooked at. That is what Kenyans are saying. I was in the US three weeks ago and I was looking at the story of Nancy Pelosi and she is not of affirmative action. Even the 47 ladies who are sitting here with us and the controversy going around in the country should be looked into. An ordinary Member, including my colleague here who is a Deputy Whip, does not enjoy the privileges they are enjoying. That is not affirmative action. Affirmative action does not mean two vehicles per woman. It does not mean extra money per woman. It means bringing everybody together. Kenyans must confront this. I heard a lawyer reasoning on radio the other day. He said that all the money that we are misdirecting, what if we created special schools for the girl-child and give them equal opportunity as the boy-child like they do in India. What we are experimenting with will fail and will not work. When you see all these Government of Kenya vehicles---I have never entered my The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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