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    "id": 902499,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherargei",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "Cabinet of President Uhuru Kenyatta do not meet the gender threshold. We want to challenge that in future we must ensure that it is 50-50 per cent as we move forward as a country. I want to thank Sen. (Rev.) Waqo. We fully support and look forward to full realization of gender equity. The future for the women of this country is very luminous. I want to assure you that - because I sit in the Committee on Justice Legal Affairs and Human Rights as the Chairperson - we are working on the audit of the general elections of 2017 and the audit of the repeat Presidential elections of 26th October, 2017. We have sat with IEBC and agreed that we must relook at how the election process is conducted in this country. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, as Sen. (Rev.) Waqo has said, there is no level playing field to ensure that women can compete fairly and this is because of dirty tricks and hooliganism that ruin their campaigns. We need the IEBC to be stronger so that any person who intimidates and fights women unfairly must face the full force of the law. I know when we come to the audit of the elections law, we will ensure that we give that a priority and protect our women, going forward. I want to challenge the political parties, let us support women. Looking at the leadership of women across the country, they have done extremely well. I look into the future where my daughter, mother or sister will have a country where they can rise up and will not be judged by their gender, but by the content of what they can provide for this country. I second."
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