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    "id": 650432,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/650432/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Okoth",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Kenneth Odhiambo Okoth",
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    "content": "Campaigning for office and preparing to participate in political leadership in this country is very costly, dangerous, time and energy consuming, and needs serious planning. The fact that this Bill is a year late puts women who were supposed to benefit and prepare for it, and our political parties that were supposed to organise and see how they will encourage and create the next generation of women coming into political leadership in this country, at a disadvantage. However, all is not lost. It is in our hands as leaders in the National Assembly to pass this Bill and take it to the Senate and give it enough time to pass it so that we can meet the August deadline and avoid a constitutional crisis. We are a litigious country where any citizen has a right to challenge the legality of this House if we do not pass this Bill by August. We do not want that type of constitutional crisis in our hands. We must do the right thing, and not just because we fear being taken to the High Court and someone requesting this House to be dissolved, but because it is the right thing and it has taken us too long. I hope even in the months and years that it has taken us to think about this have created a space for consensus."
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