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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wamunyinyi",
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        "legal_name": "Athanas Misiko Wafula Wamunyinyi",
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    "content": "It is important for us to actualise the one-third gender rule, especially given that we have wives, daughters and other ladies who are also entitled to leadership positions. Ladies feel that they are also equal to men. I believe that in the eyes of God, all persons are equal, unless you know anywhere that God has given different ratings to these people. We are all equal in the eyes of God. Let this be a natural aspect. God has given us the power to rule over the world and we should all do it equally. Why are women contesting for seats? Why do they not just wait for allocation? They are competing with men and other women. The special seats for women in the counties are enough. I empathise with my good friend, Hon. Kiragu’s thoughts, but this is not something you want to sit and say that people are seated there and should be given free seats. Why give people free seats? Let them fight for them. They should fight for the seats. We have been talking about escalation of cost of doing business. Even in Government, people have talked about the cost of salaries and the cost of running institutions like Parliament. There is a lady called Sarah Serem. She inadvertently cut our salaries. She reduced our salaries and allowances and went away with it. The reason that was advanced when she was doing this was that Members of Parliament are so many, and that we are eating so much resources that would otherwise go to development. If, after the general elections we allocate seats proportionately to political parties for them to nominate in order to get a balance of some sort, are we going to cut the cost or increase it? These are the facts that must be considered. I am very sure that if that happens, there will be chaos. This House already has 349 Members. That number is big. We would be talking about mechanisms of getting rid of some constituencies, which ought to be wards. Some constituencies have just about 50,000 or 60,000 people while others, like mine, have 400,000 people. My constituency has a population of close to 400,000 with over 110,000 registered voters. Therefore, in my view, we would be dealing with how best we would go about the process of reducing the numbers of Members of Parliament, constituencies and the 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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