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    "id": 638967,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/638967/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Kanyua",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Priscilla Nyokabi Kanyua",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, let me also support this law as a woman who has, one time, tried to contest for a position in an organisation of lawyers. A month was given for the time for candidates to prepare. I put a bid to be a leader in that organisation. The surprise of all surprises is that the night before the election, some leaders called me aside and told me that I needed to drop my candidature; that my candidature was not suitable for the mere reason that I was a woman. There was not anything I had done; nothing unconstitutional; nothing to break the rules of that organisation; nothing to refuse to honour the constitution of the organisation but only on the mere reason that I was a woman and it was desirous that other candidates be given an opportunity and not me. So, as we support the two-thirds law today, there are, indeed, barriers that are stopping women from contesting. There are barriers that stop women from being elected. There are barriers that stop women from electing other women. Those barriers are in our traditions, cultures, economics, academics and financial matters. So, there was a reason to have a mechanism that will start encouraging women to contest in the elections--- The Constitution of Kenya (Amendment) Bill we are discussing today is accompanied by the Elections (Amendment) Bill and the Political Parties (Amendment) Bill that, in the first place, as many women as possible will contest in the elections."
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