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    "id": 919792,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, my deputy is becoming cantankerous. This Bill is very important. It is part of the Bills that will actualise the representation of women, youth and people with special interests. As you are aware, there are people who have petitioned the Chief Justice that Parliament is not implementing the two-thirds gender rule. So, we need to reduce the publication period so that the Chair of the Constitutional Implementation Oversight Committee (CIOC) can conduct public participation as we are on recess. We want to tell the Judiciary and the people out there that Parliament works in a system where a question is put on everything that is before the House. How Members vote is their own right, based on their conscience and the people who brought them to this House. So, we cannot force them. As the Leader of the Majority Party, I will reintroduce the two-thirds gender Bill. I will keep trying. We want to assure the Chief Justice that the way the Judiciary works is different from the way the Legislature works. This is the first step we are making. We want to reduce the 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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