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    "id": 858360,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Matungulu, WDM – K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Stephen Mule",
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        "legal_name": "Stephen Mutinda Mule",
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    "content": "I cannot put it any better than President Obama did. He said that it is unwise to have half of your team not playing. We must have a full team in this country to play this game to make sure that Kenya develops for all of us and not just for a particular gender. Equality is not about our sisters alone. I can be a prophet of doom. If the male Members of Parliament in this House do not support this Bill, in the next 15 or 20 years, we will be subjected to such a Bill. We need to leave a legacy. It is high time we handled this without emotions and having Kenyans view us as selfish. I was elected to this House to legislate. The process we have begun is not only for this Parliament but for the future of this country and the kids being born today. We are showing the nation where we are headed. The African Union (AU) alone has come up with so many legislations and treaties which Kenya is signatory to. They are very clear on the issues of equality and gender. When we talk about equality and gender, we need to put it very clearly that it does not belong to our sisters. It also belongs to men. It is high time, Hon. Speaker, we dealt with this issue once and for all. We need to make sure that we have total equality and representation of all gender within the country, from the wards, constituencies, counties and national level. I wish the next President of this country appoints a woman as a Deputy President, so that we can give our ladies a chance to ascend to the throne of State House. If we are trying to imagine that if we bring more sisters to this House, we are going to…"
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