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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ababu",
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        "legal_name": "Ababu Tawfiq Pius Namwamba",
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, for our mothers, wives, daughters and Kenya, let us support this Bill. The greatest stumbling block to this Bill is the concern on numbers. We are concerned that we do not want to turn this Chamber into a high school. We do not want to be too many, so that we cannot fit in the lobby or in the dining hall. There is also the argument that it is too expensive. I want to tell this House, on the question of numbers, the necessity to reduce the size of representation in this country is a challenge we cannot run away from. This House ultimately will have to become seized of the matter of numbers in this House, the Senate and the county assemblies, but on that same note, that is a different debate and not related to this one in any way. We will not delay the actualisation of a constitutional principle because of our fear over numbers. Let us fix this one and then deal with the issue of numbers. There is also the concern about cost. We are saying we are going to turn representation into an expensive affair. Hon. Members, who said democracy was cheap? In fact, if you think democracy is cheap, try tyranny and dictatorship. This country has tried the route of dictatorship, tyranny and exclusion. I want to tell this House that however expensive what we are attempting 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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