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    "id": 974030,
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    "speaker_name": "Nominated, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Prof.) Jacqueline Oduol",
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        "legal_name": "wilson sossion",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. I support this amendment, but with reservations. As I support, I take the opportunity to draw the attention of the House to the critical challenge where, as we list the categories that we are going to put here, we have put women as a category. We give the impression that we do not have women in the youth, people with disabilities and the minorities. As I look at this, I have a heavy heart because I find it extremely challenging that I am seated here as a nominated Member that has come under the quota of women in the ODM Party by which case I represent the entire political party of ODM. When I sit here, and I speak on issues of the Committee of the whole House, I do not really think it is right that we would be looking at numbers. Every Member of Parliament here is representing a constituency that has very many numbers and they, by their single presence, are Members of Parliament. I had sought to come on a point of order and I would like my colleague, Hon. Oundo, to note that it is really one of the greatest challenges that led us to introduce a requirement in the Constitution that we do not bring cultural lenses that would seem to reduce and demean those in Parliament. I do not think it is right for us, as we deal with legislation in the Committee of the whole House, to burden female Members of Parliament, even if they are not representing the interest of women, and instead of dealing with the amendment, continue making it look like they are not here. I, therefore, support this amendment, but with reservations. As I had said earlier, the manner that we are using special interest groups is suspect. I hope as we continue, because we have room to continually and to later on do the amendment, we will later address this, so that we can see that women are not a category of their own since we have youth who have girls and we have all the other categories."
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