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    "id": 833149,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Allow me to thank Hon. Chris Wamalwa for tabling this constitutional amendment Bill. It is not very easy. Those of us who have been here for a while know it is not easy to even table a Bill and have it debated in this House. Many Members have been here for three terms and have not even managed to introduce one Bill in the National Assembly. Hon. Wamalwa has tried even though he did not manage to get the numbers. As the Leader of the Majority Party rightly put it, many of us, including myself, were going to vote against his Bill, not because I do not like him, but because I did not agree with the spirit of that constitutional amendment. However, I want to quickly come to the defence of the female Members of Parliament who are wearing white ribbons. As a matter of fact, I was given a white ribbon. I left it in my office because I did not want to come with it to Parliament, but I can walk anywhere with it. I believe in the spirit in which they are fighting and the agenda they are fighting for. They are not fighting, but trying to help this country realise the constitutional requirement as per Article 181 of our Constitution that we have proper representation in terms of gender in both Houses of Parliament and other elective positions."
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