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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wamunyinyi",
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        "legal_name": "Athanas Misiko Wafula Wamunyinyi",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker that is the point. Are we trying to create opportunities for people to come here and make money and not make any contribution or what is it? I have had the opportunity to visit some of the most developed democracies. I have been to the Congress and the House of Commons. When you get to those developed democracies and talk about gender, they ask you: “What do you mean?” They do not know this thing called gender. Go to those institutions and you will find that there is nothing like that. Why the double standards? Why impose it on countries that are developing. Leave it to us. Let us manage our affairs. In our country and particularly the community I come from, which you also happen to come from, we know the role that the ladies play at home. They know what they are expected to do and they do it very well, given a chance. They help families. When ladies get something, the family has something at home. We also get to build families and the nation through them. You hardly see most of them building the nation or even making children. They do not build the nation. So, I do not think that it is right for anybody in Europe to lecture Kenyans. Some of the Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) and the civil society have been pursuing this, but when you look at those countries funding these activities, like those I mentioned, they have nothing called gender balance in their countries. However, when they come here, they send a few people in Kenya with some money to come and lecture people and the civil society and tell Parliament what to do. The President also follows and directs Parliament to sit and pass the Bill. We must get away from this. This is the Legislature. This is the National Assembly and you need to consider your own business. The Constitution gives you power. Do not take it directly from anywhere, even from the President. Let him run the Government and let Parliament do its business. Nobody from anywhere should come to lecture Kenyans about this. Let women fight for seats. Let them be elected like men. In any case, like I said, we are equal. So, we should not have to go to that direction of having to follow directions on what to do. I wish to condemn some of the commissions that have been set up by some members of Government. It is not fair for the Government not to act to protect women in some instances, where they have been raped and mistreated by some crooked men. You can talk to a woman and express yourself. Why do they use force on women? You hear some of the cases are staying in court for six, seven or eight years. This Government pretends. In some cases, criminals have been acquitted for mishandling those cases. On Friday last week, in my constituency, a policeman shot dead a woman who was selling machungwa and mboga . This policeman just removed his gun and shot her dead. The police are expected to protect. This is why they are utumishi kwa wote . They should not take sides. They should not be supporting the Jubilee Party because it has just a few days to govern this country. The National Super Alliance (NASA) will be taking over and those policemen will 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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