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    "id": 701994,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Mbarire",
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        "legal_name": "Cecily Mutitu Mbarire",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to stand and join my colleagues in opposing this Bill. I want to put it on record that this is the most retrogressive legislative proposal I have seen being brought to this Floor. It says nothing. It simply tries to hoodwink the women of Kenya to believe that there is anything being done about that right that was enshrined in the Constitution. Let me say this: I am really disappointed with the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs, Hon. Chepkong’a. The reason I am disappointed with him is that, as Hon. Alice Wahome stated when she spoke, we had a very candid an open conversation around the two-thirds gender rule and the Bills that had been brought on this Floor. After the Duale Bill was shown the door, we had a conversation with the Chairman, Hon. Chepkong’a. He accepted that there was need to bring a new Bill, but with clear timelines, clear numbers and a clear formula of how to get there. That he can now sneak back the very same Bill that we vehemently opposed, a Bill we sat down with him and the Leader of the Majority Party to say no to, is to show that the voices of women count for nothing on this Floor. It is unfortunate that he has left this House without listening to our voices once again. The question is: Who is he working for, if not for himself?"
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