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    "speaker_name": "Homa Bay CWR, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Gladys Wanga",
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        "legal_name": "Gladys Atieno Nyasuna",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for this opportunity to add my voice to this historic Bill. The 12th Parliament has an opportunity to make history. When we attempted to pass this Bill in the 11th Parliament, there was a lot of work that was put in. There was a lot of input. We missed it by a whisker. This is an opportunity that can be seized by the 12th Parliament so that it makes history as the Parliament that actualised the two-thirds gender rule. I would like to thank the Leader of the Majority Party, the Leader of the Minority Party, the Ministry of Public Service, Youth and Gender Affairs, the Cabinet Secretary and KEWOPA for the very hard work that has been put into bringing this Bill to where it is at this moment. Not everything that we passed in our Constitution is popular. In fact, not everything we do as leaders is popular. This is one of those Bills where the public is torn between spending more money or bringing in more people. We already passed it in Article 81 of the Constitution. It must be implemented. We do not have a choice. I would also like to note that, as has been said by many powerful speakers before me, there has been a lot of concern as to how the spaces we are creating in the Constitution will be filled. In the last Parliament, this constitutional amendment Bill was accompanied by a legislation. That legislation prescribed what would be done. What is good about a legislation accompanying the constitutional Bill is that even though you cannot amend a constitutional Bill on the Floor of the House like Hon. Sankok or Hon. Didmus Barasa were suggesting, you can amend a legislation. Legislation is something we can thrash out, work on and agree on who we are we bringing and how we are bringing them. The Constitution has already prescribed that we are bringing them and how many they are. I hope we will be working. Some Members have said that they will bring legislation but I hope the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs will originate legislation to work on the how once we have the Bill. If we had brought the Bill on the how before we have this constitutional amendment Bill, it would be like we are counting our chicks before they hatch. That is very important. There has been worry that if we create those positions, women will be sitting back and waiting for nominations. There is no day that women will sit back and wait for nominations. We have had nomination slots in the Constitution. Women have still worked. In the last election, there was no female Senator yet there were 16 nomination slots awaiting them. Women did not The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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