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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nairobi CWR, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Esther Passaris",
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    "content": "money, men, who are the majority, deny them that money. The last time we were preparing the budget, we were given Kshs500,000. We have Kshs6.5 million per constituency when a male Member of Parliament has Kshs100 million and we are judged the same. So, let us understand that this is in our Constitution. If we fail to pass it, I pray that the Judiciary, which is the third arm of the Government, sends us all home because we have been given enough time. We are in contempt of court as we speak. In 2016, we asked for one more year to implement and operationalise the two-thirds gender rule. We should have done it in 2017. We are now in 2018 and some Members are still saying, “Massage us, talk to us nicely and tell us why we need you.” We need to pass the two-thirds gender rule because it is a requirement of the Constitution. We adopted the Constitution and now you are saying it is going to be very expensive to have the 22 women in the National Assembly and the two women in the Senate. It will cost only Kshs280 million. What will be more expensive? Is it not the referendum, through which we want to remove women? We know that, that is the agenda of the majority of the male Members, but we cannot run this country without women."
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