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    "id": 945065,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Migori CWR, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Pamela Ochieng",
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        "legal_name": "Pamela Awuor Ochieng",
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    "content": "We thank the Committee. We stand for a better Kenya. We want to see Article 27 of the Constitution, which you mentioned and gave us guidelines on, being taken for what it means. It talks about people not being discriminated because of pregnancies… You will agree with me that when somebody is pregnant, they are so delicate. You cannot subject such a person to the kind of violence that we sometimes see. There is need to find a way of protecting pregnant women who are also interested in leadership positions be they elective or otherwise. We look forward to a Kenya where whatever we are discussing in this House can actually be implemented for what it is. It is not enough to just talk here and say that so far the women have been capacitated and yet we know… For example, on the so called National Government Affirmative Action Fund (NGAAF) that we are given, in my county of Migori we have eight very large constituencies and 40 wards with very poor people. My county has very many orphans and widows. Somebody cannot say that the money we are given is too much that we have been facilitated enough. Indeed, we are suffering because what we have is sometimes impossible to manage. It is not enough to facilitate people who can help you run your affairs in the county. If only the playing ground could sincerely and honestly be levelled for both men and women, Kenyan women would not be crying. However, because it is not level, then we need to know that to a greater extent, women of this country are still disadvantaged. That is a fact to be taken into consideration even as we support this amendment that has been brought before us. 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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