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    "id": 701937,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) F.I. Ali",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Fatuma Ibrahim Ali",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, the Leader of the Majority Party has said that they are doing a reverse. In my view, in terms of achieving the two-thirds gender principle, Kenya has reversed 100 years. Kenya is a signatory to many international instruments that require this country to achieve gender equality. Progressive realisation of the two-thirds gender principle is nothing. It is just a game. It is just like a sentence in a book. It is just meant to cheat Kenyan men and women. Hon. Midiwo said that gender is not just about women. We all know that gender is about men and women. The disparity between women and men leaderships in this country is huge. We are, today, talking about women but we might be talking about men tomorrow. As women of this country, we will not take this kindly. Progressive realisation is nothing but a lie to Kenyans. I was at the Bomas of Kenya during the national constitutional review convention meetings that took place in 2003 and 2004. The men who were present then wanted representation of men and women to be actualised now. With this kind of Bill, we are going backwards. Gender equality is not about rural or urban women because we also have rural and urban men. What is the rationale behind rural women being denied opportunities? This is another tactic of dividing women. It is useless to talk about women in that perspective. It is not an intelligent debate. Just as we have rich and poor men, we also have rich and poor women. When it comes to women, the division is unbelievable. We are tired of public relation Bills. We want a formula that says in the next Parliament, there should be given this number of men and women."
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