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    "id": 654083,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Sakaja",
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "My friend, the Secretary General of ODM, got carried away in supporting the Bill. There is no Bill before the House at this juncture. The Bill is likely to come for debate. I want to agree with him that the women of this country have for many years struggled to get this Bill to where it is. Therefore, I want to tell Hon. Gumbo that when he receives a text message like the one he received yesterday, it is lobbying. Yesterday, somebody was tweeting that if this Bill fails, they will make sure I do not become Governor of Nairobi, as if I am the one who will determine whether it passes or not. It is all understandable.When you have tried to get something for so long, you will go to all lengths to ensure that it passes. I want to remind Hon. Gumbo that even as we sit in this House, we are not special beings that we can curtail the expression of those whose sovereignty we are exercising on their behalf in this House. They can tell us anything and they can lobby us. Article 10 of our Constitution enshrines the principles and values of public participation and inclusivity. What is happening is public participation. However, I must recognise that the women movement in this country, for the past one week, has been more organised than before. All of them from the KNCHR, FIDA-Kenya, to the Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE), have gone to all lengths. We just hope at the end of the day, they will make the decision based on conscience. I would like to ask you to shorten this debate. The tone being set by Hon. Gumbo is likely to jeopardise an objective look at this Bill by making Members agitated at those SMSs. Let us not go that direction. Let us close this discussion. Let Members be lobbied the way they can be lobbied and we vote on the Bill in the afternoon. My Members from Jubilee are coming to support it. We stand for the two-thirds gender rule Bill as Jubilee. We are supporting it."
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