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    "id": 859786,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ijara, PDR",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Sophia Noor",
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        "legal_name": "Sophia Abdi Noor",
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    "content": " Thank you so much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this chance to contribute to this very important constitutional amendment Bill. Being one of the framers of the Constitution and being a person who has been involved in the constitutional debate from the Bomas time to being a Member of the consensus building team, I know we have stayed overnight to discuss these important matters and we negotiated in hard terms. I want to thank the 27-member committee that sat in Naivasha that helped us get the 47 slots for the women representatives and who in their wisdom put the two-thirds principle in the Constitution. I want to thank Kenyans who supported and voted for the Constitution without any reservations. Today is a great day. It is a defining moment for this country and for this honourable House that we are deciding to support this as a House, to get an all inclusive country that can move forward. Today presents itself another opportunity for this honourable House to be governed by rule of law and not to be selective and picking what is relevant for themselves but to decide to support a constitutional principle that is in the Constitution; a Constitution that we dearly love; a Constitution that we swore by and said that we will defend, protect and stand by it. For us to be honest as a House, we need to make it a realisation of protecting that Constitution. Being a woman or a man is a matter of birth. But being a woman or a man who makes a difference is a matter of choice. As people who are elected to make a difference in lives of the communities, we must make that difference and that is the time we will be known to be men and women who want to serve this nation and who want to make a difference in our country."
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