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    "id": 624122,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Anyango",
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        "legal_name": "Dalmas Anyango Otieno",
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    "content": "gender principle, it is possible to stretch the membership to a minimum of 20 per cent of women in each committee, even if some of them will belong to three committees. This particular Committee does not have a very heavy workload. There is the urgency and the fact that we already ignored the gender principle when we established this Committee. However, the Leader of the Majority Party and the Whip should undertake, before the House, that based on the urgency we will pass this membership but they will go and negotiate with the members of the Committee to create, at least, 20 per cent room for women Members. Hon. Kaluma has already agreed, if it is done procedurally later on, to relinquish his position to allow for the creation of that space, so that Parliament is seen to be serious in the implementation of the Constitution. This is more so on the gender principle. We should not continue to ignore it as if all the effort we have made in educating our women and training them in leadership is for nothing. So, gentlemen, stop being selfish, behave and help develop the country."
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