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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker for giving me this chance. I want to kindly ask our brothers to listen to us. Yesterday we listened to them. We were silent as women. Today we are asking them to give us their ears. I rise to support the Bill. From the outset, I would like to thank the Mover of the Bill, Hon. Duale, for being consistent with issues pertaining to gender equality in this nation. He did not give up. The people who drafted the Constitution 2010 did not want a situation where one gender is overly represented in Parliament. They clearly indicated that both the National Assembly and Senate should not have more than two-thirds of the same gender. It, therefore, tells us that this Bill is not about women. It is about ensuring that we comply with the Constitution. We have complied with very many constitutional principles, including devolution which was very complicated and very expensive. We should, therefore, find it proper in our hearts to support this particular Bill. Hon. Speaker, we are doing very badly as a country with regard to gender representation in Parliament. For example, in Rwanda 61 per cent of their Parliamentarians are women. In Tanzania and Burundi, they have 36 per cent women and Uganda 34 per cent women, while we are trailing in Kenya at 22 per cent. We are yet to establish affirmative action for gender representation in Parliament."
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