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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ijara, PDR",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Sophia Noor",
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        "legal_name": "Sophia Abdi Noor",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me a chance to contribute to this very important Bill. I want to first thank the Committee, more so, the Chair, Hon. Kioni. Hon. Kioni knows when we were doing the final touches on the Constitution, being one of the framers of this Constitution, we worked with him. We were 27 Members of that Committee. When we were putting this particular Article in the Constitution, we knew what we were doing. We knew if the 27 of us would not come back to the House, then we would have people who would implement it and pass legislation that would back up the Constitution. Article 100 of the Constitution requires enactment of legislation to promote representation of women, PWDs, youth, minorities and marginalised communities. According to the Fifth Schedule, legislation is required to implement Article 100 of the Constitution in order to promote representation of special interest groups. This was supposed to be enacted by 2015. Look at the time we have taken. The Constitution has given us a timeframe for every Article that is in the Constitution. We have taken so long. About 2015 was the right time we were supposed to have this piece of legislation, but because of people who did not understand the treatment of Article 100, they delayed and opposed the enactment of the legislation. One thing that I want to correct is what Hon. KJ said about his reservations particularly on the issue of which constituency will be reserved for special interest groups. This legislation is not saying that there will be a special constituency reserved for special interest groups. The Bill is talking about special interest groups who are not represented in this House, just the way 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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