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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ngikor",
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Ngikor Nixon",
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    "content": "I am a strong supporter of the girl-child education. In my constituency I support girl-child education. The reason I do that is so that the girl can compete and not be nominated. The moment we have this law, we are going to kill the morale of the girls because they will assume that even if they excel in education, they will be nominated if they have the intention of joining politics. So, by having this law we are going to demoralise our girls who are working hard in schools so that they can compete with men. The other issue is voting patterns. Where I come from, men do not turn up on the election day to vote. It is women who come out in good numbers to vote. I challenge my fellow women colleagues; why is it that after all that good turnout, these women turn against their own women and vote for men? Some people are claiming that in this House we have more men than women. It is not men who have come to this House. There are Kenyans who are giving men that opportunity to come to this House. Men are not just bringing themselves into this House, they have been brought by Kenyans! The male gender is endangered and not the female gender because of our population. When we argue over nominations we need to also think about the issue of men being voted for more than women in the last election. I am giving you a real life example and not an abstract one. In Turkana South, there was a strong lady on Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) ticket called Askul. She was voted out because of the CWR seat. Women were told they had their 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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