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TWO THIRD GENDER RULE

WE DO NOT  NEED THIS WEIRD RULE THAT FAVOURS ONE GENDER OVER THE OTHER . I still can’t fathom what the writers of our constitution thought when they deliberately crafted this clause, which in my view contravenes chapter four about, no grounds of discrimination. Somehow this law fovours one gender over the other. The gender that coincidentally has less than a third of representation in parliament. There are many women who have proved themselves better than men when it comes to leadership or popularity. Why should we spoil a few women with leadership rewards? They will not deliver commensurate to expectation because politicians will nominate their girlfriends, cronies, side chicks, relatives and sycophants.    We don’t need a law to elect women into leadership. On the contrary we need a society that believes in women enough to elect them into leadership. Leadership requires women who are able to get out and face off with men for the same position. In other words women have