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    "id": 726810,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Kajuju",
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        "legal_name": "Florence Kajuju",
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    "content": "I also take this opportunity to thank His Excellency President Uhuru Kenyatta for ensuring that women representatives in this House finally get an allocation that is known as the National Government Affirmative Action Fund. We fought a very big battle to ensure that we get a fund from the date we joined this Parliament in 2013. We have been trying to persuade this House to give the Women Representatives a fund and through the persuasion of His Excellency the President and the Deputy President, Women Representatives can finally afford a smile especially now that we are about to go to elections. We shall ensure that we implement the pledges we made to our electorate as far as table banking, support for vulnerable children in our community with bursaries and provision of other social facilities in our communities are concerned. I believe our Kenyans will look at Women Representatives in a different way in terms of provision of services because we were given this opportunity to lead Kenyans. I came to understand that it is very difficult for an elected leader to offer services without a fund. Now we can afford a smile. I can see the Temporary Deputy Speaker is also smiling because finally we can offer services to our people through the NGAF. Through this, I believe 100 per cent of the Women Representatives will be re-elected to the 12th Parliament. I thank the President, the Deputy President and Members of this House for that favour and for passing that Fund. I call it a favour because if it was left to other people, it would not have passed. It took the goodwill and the faith the President has in the women of Kenya for him to allow us to have this Fund. I thank him. I hope he is watching me and he is going to talk of me when the right time comes."
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