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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Dido",
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        "legal_name": "Col (Rtd) Ali Rasso Dido",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to support this Bill. We, in this House, must pass laws that will stand the test of time. We must reason using our heads, and not our hearts. It is important for us to realise that women are a major constituency of this Republic. Women are our daughters, mothers, sisters and wives. We salute women such as the late Wangari Mathai as well as Charity Ngilu and Martha Karua who ran for the presidency not because they were women but because they realised that they were intellectually endowed to stand before crowds of Kenyans and say that they were ready to lead this nation. The Constitution is very clear but we must also appreciate the fact that it is not cast in stone. It is a progressive Constitution. That is why we must amend it from time to time to ensure that it serves Kenya best within space and time, especially when we realise that certain issues are important or have been overtaken by time. As Members of the Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations, we recently visited Rwanda and Burundi. Those two countries have addressed the issue of women representation through parties. This is where they provide party list. However, women also compete for election through the constituencies, just as the men do. They do not have any nomination to the national assemblies. In our case, we are saying that we should legislate through a Bill for women to represent us in Parliament. We are not objecting to the 47 County Women Representatives who are already representing the counties. We are saying that there are no freebies just because we need more women in the National Assembly. Hon. Speaker, with those remarks, I beg to support."
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