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    "id": 834476,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/834476/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 376,
        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
        "slug": "millie-odhiambo-mabona"
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    "content": "land. Because women are the ones who play mainly the nurturing and caring roles, this has led to the feminisation of poverty. You find that in Kenya, and in Africa as a whole, majority of the most poor are women because they do not have access to ownership or control of land. Even though the Constitution provides for the ownership of land by women, many communities have not yet adopted that constitutional provision. Hon. Speaker, I know you have challenged us as a House that it is not enough for us to pass or note this Report and challenge the Departmental Committee on Lands, but we need to go further. I would want to encourage the Departmental Committee on Lands that one of the ways that they can go further in ensuring that we give effect to this is to come up with a law that specifically deals with the issue of feminisation of poverty through disenfranchisement of women in land ownership, in acquisition of land and in the utilisation of land. One way of doing that is to have a paradigm shift through civic education and through enhanced litigation especially in succession matters so that even where women have been disinherited by communities, the Government will forcefully return them and enable them to acquire land so that poverty does not bear a female face. I thank you."
}