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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Chepkong’a",
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Kiprono Chepkonga",
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    "content": "It is important that this House passes this Bill. We considered about 16 scenarios as the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs. We reduced them to four scenarios and considered how the two-third gender amendment rule could be implemented. The first proposal that was placed to us by the National Gender and Equality Commission (NGEC) is lifting the provisions of Articles 177(b) and (c), 97 and 98 of the Constitution. This means that we will increase the number of women in this House from the current number to 151 Members. We shall have brought an additional 104 women to this House. We considered this proposal and we thought if we were to do that against all proposals that people have been placing in this House and particularly the Constitutional Implementation Oversight Committee (CIOC)--- We have had very many proposals such as “ punda amechoka ” and others. There are proposals that state that we are too many Members. In fact, our numbers should be reduced. I was in Eldoret over the weekend and I met a gentleman. It was the first time I was meeting him. I was looking for a spare part. I walked round and by the time I came back he gave me a paper to bring to the National Assembly. He was proposing how we can reduce the number of Members from the current 349 to 222."
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