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    "id": 945071,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I also rise to support the Bill. Before us is a Bill by the Constitutional Implementation Oversight Committee, chaired by my good friend, Hon. Jeremiah Kioni, who has made recommendations on amendments to about seven statutes. In summary, we need to understand why those amendments are necessary and what this Bill intends to achieve. We must agree that our 2010 Constitution had some contradictions in its provisions. First, it emphasised on the first-past-the-post mode of election. It then made a provision that at least not more than two-thirds of either gender must be in elective and appointive positions. It also provided Article 177 for county assemblies but when it comes to the National Assembly and the Senate, it provided for 16 seats for women in the Senate and 47 seats in the National Assembly. It is a contradiction. We must accept that that is one of the contradictions of our 2010 Constitution. Either those who drafted this Constitution or those of us who voted for it did not take time to understand the connection between these provisions or it was deliberate. Some 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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