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    "content": "appreciate the party and his leadership for this far that we have come. We appreciate the President and his deputy for believing in women leadership and giving us leadership positions in this House. I take this opportunity to thank them for believing and allowing me to become the Senate Majority Chief Whip and my sister, Sen. Fatuma, to become the Deputy Senate Majority Leader. I also thank them for what is coming to Sen. (Prof.) Kamar. I thank the party for walking the talk. I am also excited to see the youthful Members of parliament and Members of County Assembly (MCAs) who have been elected from our party. I am grateful that as a country, we are moving forward and believing in women leadership and youth. We have also seen how well nominations have worked and that is why I hope in this term we will come up with legislation regarding the two-thirds gender rule. In my county, for example the current elected Woman Representative was a nominated Senator in this House in the last Parliament. The current elected Member of the National Assembly for Gilgil was also a nominated Senator in this House in the last Parliament. We also have our sisters here who have been nominated as Senators. I want to encourage you that following that path, the sky is the limit. So, as we continue to ensure that we get the gains for women, I hope this time we will realise the necessary legislation for the two-thirds gender rule to be achieved. I also want to take note of the legislation that was done by the previous Senate. The Senate accomplished a lot. Having served as the former Speaker of Nakuru County Assembly, I saw how much the Senate supported the counties in protecting and promoting devolved governments. So, I am hopeful that in this current Senate, we shall work very hard to strengthen devolution frameworks for effective and efficient service delivery to our people in the counties. I am excited to be in this Senate and hopeful that it will be a more vibrant House. The tag of ‘ nyumba ya wazee’ was a bit hard to overcome as we campaigned to get elected to the Senate. Everybody wondered why we would want to go to ‘nyumba ya wazee,” but I am glad to hear that it is in a very positive way. I look forward to working very hard and I am sure everybody does and become the House that will provide very good and effective leadership in this country. Again, I take this opportunity to thank the President for his wonderful speech. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir."
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