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    "speaker_name": "Bomet CWR, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Joyce Korir",
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        "legal_name": "Joyce Chepkoech Korir",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this chance. Before I talk on the Bill, I must give special thanks to His Excellency the President, the Deputy President, the Right Honourable Raila Odinga, Kalonzo Musyoka and the entire leadership of this House and also the ministry for this wonderful Bill that is on the Floor of this House today. I also congratulate the Hon. Members of this House, especially the male Hon. Members, for supporting the gender Bill. I also congratulate the women Hon. Members in this House. I echo the sentiments that have been made by my colleagues that the gender Bill is not about the women but it is about both women and the men. There is notion that gender is specifically the women. We have a number of countries that have really fought for this gender Bill. One of them is Rwanda. We have Cuba, Sweden, Senegal, Namibia, Spain, Ethiopia, Germany, among others. Rwanda is on the lead with 64 per cent women in Parliament. Today, I bring a reality in this House that if we were discussing the gender Bill on the side of more women in this Parliament and few men, a number of men would have been in this House. The reason as to why I am saying this is there is a notion that we are fighting as women to have more women nominated. I want to say that we are equal to the task and I can confirm to this House that we have a number of women who have fought for several elective seats ranging from that of governor, president, senate and Members of Parliament, Members of County Assembly, ministerial, among other positions. As we speak today, I also confirm to this House that although we stand today as women in this House, personally, I am not fighting to be nominated or for any favours, but we want this Bill to be passed so that at least both genders can have a position in terms of representation. I want to quote one Mathew Henry who said: “The woman was made of a rib out of the side of Adam; not made out of his head to rule over him…"
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