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"content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, epochal moments that deserve to be inscribed with golden letters in the annals of history are normally moments like this one. This is a moment when this House is seized of a truly historic piece of legislation. Before I get to this Bill, I am surprised that we are telling people to tone down and not to raise temperatures. Hon. Deputy Speaker, this is the Chamber that provides a platform for the collective passion, fears, dreams and even insanity of the people of this nation. So, if there is one place that we must allow passions to boil and a clash of ideas, it is the Floor of this House. So, the senior Member for Gem is perfectly within his constitutional right and mandate to stand on the Floor of this House and take a position that is part of the debate that spices this debate. Having said that, I am very proud to have co-chaired the Parliamentary Select Committee that negotiated the political deal that gave us this new constitutional dispensation. As we spent weeks on end in Naivasha negotiating and deliberating on the finer details of the letter and spirit of this Constitution, among the principles that we had no doubt about was the principle of gender equity in the leadership of this country. For six years since August 2010, when the people of this country in overwhelming fashion promulgated and gave unto themselves this Constitution, we have procrastinated this matter of gender equity. We have circumlocuted this issue of gender and short-circuited the gender agenda. I say enough prevarication. Let us say “aye” to this Bill today."
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