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    "id": 859608,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mathare, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Anthony Oluoch",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Tom Oluoch",
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    "content": "affirmative measure in this Constitution. Affirmative action has been entrenched in other provisions of the Constitution in relation to youth, persons with disabilities and those who come from underprivileged backgrounds. With this awareness, and taking into account that at various stages this Parliament has failed to undertake or meet that constitutional directive, this moment in history is very crucial, not only because the Constitution says so, but because of the various court decisions that have come very close to dissolving this Parliament. Having said that, even with the unqualified support that I give this Bill, allow me to pose a question to the Mover of the Bill. You gave a ruling to which I have nothing to add that when a constitutional Bill is placed before Parliament, it is not capable of being amended. Allow me to pose this question to the drafters of this Bill to grapple with. At the sunset date, whether it is 20 years later and even after exercising Parliament’s power to extend it in 10 years, the provisions of this amendment will have lapsed by operation of law. What will happen to the parent provision of the Constitution, which is Article 81, which will bring us back to the issue of the two-thirds gender rule? I support this Bill and urge my colleagues to stand on the right side of history. Let us support and pass this two-thirds gender Bill."
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