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    "id": 702408,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Nyikal",
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    "content": "upon. She also realises that the Act does not portray equity between boys and girls. I noted that and I second. We also passed the Sessional Paper on the National Child Policy and on Child Labour. Those are extremely important documents that we passed in this House. On the one-third gender rule, I opposed that Motion. It was an error that was committed at the time we put the Constitution in place. We had intended to get a figure through an electoral process. It is impossible to predict what you will get numerically through an electoral process. Article 177 on county government indicated that you just nominate enough women to get the one-third gender rule, but in the National Assembly we are scared of the issue of numbers. I think we will have to replace this and come up with a formula which may include amending the Constitution. That way, we will have to cite numbers so that we meet the one-third gender rule without thinking that we can get it through an electoral process. That is something we will come back to look at properly. The committees carefully looked at The Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill that we have passed. They picked out the pitfalls that are there. Once again, we must look back and use the provision of miscellaneous amendments for what it is meant for, which is introducing minor amendments and not major changes to Acts of Parliament."
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