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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kaluma",
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        "legal_name": "George Peter Opondo Kaluma",
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, thank you for the opportunity to second this important Bill. It delights me that our good Whip of the Majority Party has designated me as the Member of Parliament to second this important Bill. I believe the passage of this Bill will be the greatest mark of the 11th Parliament. It is something we have struggled over for years. I want to say that in as much as a court determination has been made under Article 261 of the Constitution, the fact of that court order is not what is motivating us to move in the direction we are moving. Indeed, it has been important for us that we have all genders of our nation represented in our governance. Even as we pass this Bill which will unlock the governance bottlenecks more particularly the female genders fest in getting into leadership positions and more so elective ones. In this House, we must as a society look back and consider very deeply why we are in a situation where we have to fight for gender balance when these matters are electoral processes."
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