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    "content": "means, but we must come up with certain means to ensure that women, youth and persons with disability are shielded from some of the vagaries that they will be subjected to by the male contestants. I support the proposal by Sen. Wangari which contradicts one of the amendments here. Once someone has been nominated, this business of eligibility for nomination for two further terms is an abuse of a privilege. Once you have been nominated once, that should give you enough exposure to understand the rules and how the game is played so that you can go out there and try it out on your own. You should also give an opportunity for others to come to this House or go to the National Assembly and get that exposure. At that right time, I will be rooting that we amend and change this from two further terms and in my view, a nomination should be for one term after which the nominee should be free to go out and square it out and come back to this House through a proper election. Mr. Deputy Speaker, I conclude by quoting the words of a popular song of the reggae class. A famous musician sang, “They say women will rule this world in time to come.” That time has come. When we visited Sweden with a Parliamentary Committee, we met women working in the Swedish Prison Service who did not want to be recognised as women. They did not want to be congratulated for being women at the top. To them being a woman is just an issue of anatomy. It does not define their condition. I emphasize again that the women of this country must start thinking that way but the men of this country must also free women so that it is just about the anatomy. The focus should be on the intelligence, character and all the gifts that God gave them. I believe that God gave women gifts equal if not greater than gifts that he gave men. When I see men carrying their pot bellies around town and the way they look fatigued, if they were to carry a baby for nine months, manhood would be extinct. That is why God made women stronger and more graceful. I wonder why they cannot use these gifts to transcend. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, with those remarks, I beg to support."
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