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    "id": 674636,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, with your permission, allow me to thank you and also remind Sen. (Dr.) Zani that I understand that she is a lecturer at the University of Nairobi. If she had been one of the teachers who taught me, she would not have qualified to teach English because, apparently, I understand English better than she does. I can read this clause and understand it well. I am asking Sen. Sijeny to do the honourable thing, demonstrate good will, bring us on board and not disenfranchise other Kenyan women and drop this amendment. We want all other Kenyans to benefit. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, during the Third Reading, I will introduce a further amendment. I will provide that persons who qualify for nominations under this particular Article must, over and above the provisions of Article 99, be people who have demonstrated interest in politics. We do not want nominated people to be women who have been fished from nowhere and we end up with people’s girlfriends and wives. I know of a personal assistant of a party leader, who when given an opportunity to organize a list, nominated his two daughters to a county assembly. To stop this mischief, I will be introducing the clause, which I will beg the House to support; that for a woman to qualify for nomination, she should have vied and lost. That way, we will know that she has the appetite for politics. Finally but not least, I want to appeal to the Chairperson of the National Gender and Equality Commission, Ms, Winfred Lichuma, that this is an excellent opportunity. Instead of the time she wasted trying to lobby Members of the National Assembly, she should come and talk to our Senators. She should also call for a quick workshop of the women Senators so that they tone down on the kind of attitude demonstrated by Sen. (Dr.) Zani this afternoon. Sen. (Dr.) Zani should appreciate that she does not lead any delegation. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I therefore, conclude by assuring---"
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