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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Kanyua",
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        "legal_name": "Priscilla Nyokabi Kanyua",
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    "content": "The marginalisation we feel as women is shared across this country. I speak as a woman from central Kenya and as a woman who knows what marginalisation means, not just here in Parliament but in all our lives. There is nothing as sad as being denied an opportunity for not committing crime, but because of the mere fact that you are a woman. To be denied an opportunity only for being born a woman, a decision for which only the Maker had a choice to make and a decision you could not appeal--- You are born a male or a female because of the Maker’s design. Our Maker intended that men and women will lead this country together. If the 11th Parliament is not able to improve the Constitution, we beg our colleagues to leave it as it is. Let us pass other legislations which will answer the question on the two-thirds gender rule. We should not make the Constitution take a back seat in the name of implementing it. The Bill we have will negate the very rights the Constitution has given. We are prepared to support all the legislations on two-thirds because we have had this discussion. Many Kenyan women will contest in the next election and many Kenyan women will vote for the women of Kenya. If the 12th Parliament will be assessed, there will be many more women who would have been elected, but the answer, and I keep repeating, is not the Bill that we have today. This is not a middle ground. Actually, this is no ground. This is a bad piece of legislation that we are opposing. Caucus 47, the Kenya Women Parliamentary Association and many progressive male Members of this House are opposing this Bill. Fathers, brothers, uncles and nephews, and especially fathers and husbands, kindly do not support this legislation. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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