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    "speaker_name": "Kisumu CWR, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Rozaah Buyu",
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        "legal_name": "Rozaah Akinyi Buyu",
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    "content": "But I would like to confirm that the violence women face is almost impossible to surmount and this Bill tries to curb it. This Bill tries to shield the marginalised groups like women from the abuses and derogatory names they are called during such contests. As I stand here today, I am a mother of three grown up children, but during elections, like many other women, I have endured being called names that I cannot mention and it happened in front of my children. Many women who might not be as strong as I am will shy away in order to protect their families. This amendment now strongly criminalises any use of derogatory words. It will encourage many women to contest by giving them confidence that as they come out in the political arena, they will still protect their families from hearing nasty words. I am also happy that the amendment recognises the fact that political parties have a key responsibility in helping us achieve parity or helping us to bring marginalised groups to the fore. It compels political parties to ensure that at the nomination level, at least, one-third of the nominees the party puts forward to contest in the general elections are of either gender. This is great because many times, if you look at the list of Members the party has put through to contest on their ticket in the general elections, you will find very few women. This still does not solve the problem because political parties that are largely run and owned by our male colleagues are naughty. They are naughty because with this requirement that one-third of the Members should be of either gender, I can bet my life on it that most political parties will choose the areas in which they are not competitive at all to field women candidates as long as they achieve the one- third gender rule. In doing that, political parties will not have helped us achieve what the spirit of this amendment seeks to do. The spirit of this amendment seeks to ensure that nominees of political parties can actually campaign and win elections and in effect, increase the numbers of the marginalised groups. But if political parties are left to field women candidates in any place they like, they will definitely choose constituencies where they have no influence or where they have very minimal influence. I am going to bring an amendment to tighten this, so that we can 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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