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    "id": 740598,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Oyugi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Augostinho Neto Oyugi",
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    "content": "For five years, we have been trying to juggle balls and levers while there are constitutional principles on how to realise this. Let us be honest that a constitutional amendment is needed and it ought to be one which pays regard to social and legal principles on how to change the various issues. The fourth thing is that it is evident that we will not be able to pass the two-thirds gender Bill in this particular Parliament because we have a couple of sittings to go and we need two-thirds of the Members of Parliament to pass this particular Bill. This essentially shows it might take miracles to marshal numbers and this will be very dangerous. This is one thing which is very disappointing because as a Parliament we have pussy-footed for five years. I think this is shortchanging the women of this country, if we are not able to change this. If at all we are not able to realise rights of a particular sphere, you do not know whose rights are next going to be violated. All the rights in the Constitution are supposed to be realisable. We cannot pretend that when it comes to women’s rights they are not important. Then, this will go to the rights of the youth under Article 55 of the Constitution which need to be realised with regard to The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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