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    "id": 834475,
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    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 376,
        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. First of all, I support the Motion. In supporting the Motion, I want to give a different angle which is looking at the role of land and the feminisation of poverty. Again, from what the Members have said, ownership or access to land opens doors for wealth creation and acquisition. Some of the ways in which it will enable one to access or acquire wealth is that when you own land or have access to land, you can sell it, use it to acquire loans or use it productively by farming. Occasionally, you may be lucky enough that there are minerals in your land and in such a case, many people have benefited because they have a lot of compensation by the Government. Land also provides one of the most basic needs for human beings, which is the need for shelter. The reason I want to link the issue of ownership of land to feminisation of poverty is because traditionally, most communities did not allow women to either own or use land. If you are speaking from your ancestral homes, almost all communities did not recognise the rights of women to own land. When you go to where you are married, they also do not recognise your right to own land. If you remember, when we were doing the constitutional review, one of the most contested areas was women’s rights to own land. Indeed, we almost lost the Constitution because of that alone. When you look at it, because of that, you actually discover what many men do over the years. Whenever a resource becomes beneficial, then they are willing to change the traditions to suit them. Examples of some of the names of clans in Luoland that show you what original traditions of the Luo were include Kanyaluo, which means it was the home of the Luo woman; Kanyamwa, which is the home of the woman who was not a Luo; Kanyadoto and many others. This means that traditionally, even amongst the Luo Community, the person in whom the right to land resided was the woman. But over the years, when we saw the beneficial aspects of land, then suddenly, it became an issue of gender discrimination. Because of that aspect of gender discrimination, many women are not able to own land, use land or transact in The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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