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    "id": 737026,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Katoo",
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        "legal_name": "Judah Katoo Ole-Metito",
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    "content": "This House is now in its sunset days. We are ending probably our four-and-a-half years and we have not achieved this requirement save for the Supreme Court advisory opinion that was sought by the Attorney-General of the Republic of Kenya that says that this requirement could be achieved progressively. I know that the membership of the Senate is 47 elected Senators who all happen to be men; Members of the same gender. The Senate has nomination of 20 Members. The Senate is fairly within the requirement, but this House is far much below that constitutional requirement. Therefore, this Bill intends to achieve that constitutional requirement. Its objective is to amend the Constitution to give effect to those Articles I have mentioned earlier on. That is Article 81(b) of the Constitution which I have read out. Therefore, the Bill also tries to ensure that the membership of the two Houses conforms to the two-thirds gender principle in accordance with our Constitution. The Bill I am moving is similar to a Bill that was published by the late Senator Mutula Kilonzo save for the provisions in this Bill that outline the sunset clause. If you look at the Bill though I will try to explain later on, you will find that there is a sunset clause that says that we should only exercise that affirmative action to arrive at the two-thirds gender rule for only 20 years. If you look at Clause 5 of the proposed amendment, you will realise that it proposes to amend Article 98 of the Constitution by inserting Clause 1(c) that says that Parliament may enact legislation to extend the period under Clause 1(b) for a further fixed period not exceeding ten years. Clause 5 - that is the amendment of Article 98 - says: “A sunset clause of twenty-years is included in the amendment with an option for extension for one further fixed period of ten years as it is expected that by that time enormous gains will have been made with regard to gender parity in elected members of Parliament.” That is the only difference between this Bill and the Bill which was published by the late Senator Mutula Kilonzo. Clause 2 applies to general election. How do we arrive at these special seats? If you look at Clause 4 of the Bill---"
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