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    "id": 740638,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Bunyasi",
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        "legal_name": "John Sakwa Bunyasi",
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    "content": "differently. In my community I know for a fact that most men wake up in the morning to go to the market. Of course, they seem to have projects in the market. They will say they are trying to earn an income but the truth is that they are not going to the garden where most of the resources are derived from, where income is derived from in terms of food and other crops that they may be growing. Therefore, if we do not get into a situation where these choices are normalised according to the population, we will continue to get the challenges we have received. I think that the numbers we are seeking should be the dead end of the process. Sure enough, we want to define what we want to achieve in 20 or 30 years, but the truth of the matter is that the numbers that result from that are an end result of a process. As I was saying, the issues of how we allocate our resources towards food security to forestall famine and deaths that occur, if women were about a half of this House, we would be making completely different decisions on that. We would not be waiting to import maize at exorbitant prices when people have already died. They reminded us of that a bit earlier. There are ways in which different genders make decisions. I oppose the extension of 10 years. We must seriously begin to address this now. Twenty years is a very long time and extending it by 10 years… Why do we not want to make it 50 years or a Century to come? You could do that. After all, if we look at what other countries including the Scandinavian countries, advanced as they may be have done, they have not reached it. The British where we derived our parliamentary democracy have not reached it. Why do we not make it 100 years? I do not think that is the direction we should go. We could go the other direction. Rwanda and South Africa have done it. We do not need 20 years to make the decisions that Rwanda has made. Let us get serious on this but first and foremost, let us define what we are seeking to achieve more clearly so that we can begin to see where we are come September. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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