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    "id": 648141,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Seneta",
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        "legal_name": "Mary Yiane Senata",
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    "content": "other elective seats, especially in the county assemblies. This issue of nomination is proving to be expensive because every time we nominate women to all Houses, our budget increases. We also urge women to also vie for all seats so that we do not just believe in nomination. I, particularly, urge the women of Kenya who, most of the times, are the ones who elect our leaders, especially our elected Members of Parliament, to vie for political seats. Most of the Members of Parliament are elected by women in our counties and constituencies. I urge women outside this House to make sure that our fellow women who vie for different elective seats are elected. I also urge our elected women to also vie for different positions. I know that there are challenges that make them not vie for positions, especially economic empowerment. In pastoralist communities of Kenya, women have no authority to sell any property without the authority of the men. They have no authority to sell plots or livestock so that they can get money to campaign for those elective seats. It is a challenge but I still urge women to elect their fellow women. I urge our women not to shy away but to make sure that they mobilise resources through churches and friends so that they can also be elected. I also wish to inform my colleagues that gender balance in this House will enable us to have policies and legislation that is friendly to all our genders. If we just let our men colleagues to make laws, policies and regulations alone, sometimes, their perspective is towards the opposite gender. So, I urge the House to support this Bill. I thank the Leader of the Majority Party for bringing this timely Bill. I urge Kenyans to support us by electing more women to all elective seats. I stop there and support the Bill."
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