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    "id": 858408,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Gilgil, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Martha Wangari",
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        "legal_name": "Martha Wangari",
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    "content": "Members out of 290. Right now, this formula has been amended. We have agreed clearly that we will not do affirmative action on affirmative action seats. If you sit on the 47, we minus them from what we require. If you sit on the 23 that we occupy, we minus them. The burden is not as much. It is 21 Members to comply. On that 21, it is very critical to put it here that it is not static. If more women are elected and we elect 50 next time, the numbers to top up will go down. I know the cost of this has also been alluded to. This Constitution as implemented one of the most expensive governance systems. That is the devolution. We have spent billions of money to comply with the Constitution to the 47 the county governments, whether we like them or not. It is because it is constitutional and the right thing to do to this country. Therefore, on the issue of cost, the Institute of Economic Affairs of this country has done a study on that. The cost as alluded to by Hon. Mbadi can maybe be Kshs2 billion at most. I do not say it is small money but, we lose even in Government Kshs400 billion per year to corruption. Our problem cannot be women when it comes to costs but we close our eyes when it comes to other issues. I think it is good to be clear and set the right step for this country. We owe it to this country to pass this law, not just because it is about me, the slay queens or slay kings. Everyone who comes to this House has fought their own fights even in the political parties. I know because I have been there. It is not easy for you to be in that nomination list. You are sometimes nominated then you are removed and someone else is put. Those fights are there but, we cannot throw away the baby with the bath water. We may have small defects in the political parties but, let us amend them through an Act of Parliament. The general principle is that we owe it to the future of this country, ourselves and to the Constitution that we uphold. Let us do what we were not able to in the 11th Parliament in this 12th Parliament. With those many remarks, I support and ask that Members see the bigger picture and not limit it to some of us or the people who have been there before us."
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