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Women representatives Cecily Mbarire (left) and Priscilla Nyokabi.
Furious women MPs rejected suggestions that 47 elective county seats allocated for their gender in Parliament should be scrapped, as heated debate continued on the contentious two-thirds gender rule.
The row over constitutional affirmative action has sucked in President Uhuru Kenyatta and Opposition leader Raila Odinga after women MPs demanded the two leaders direct their respective coalitions to defend their special slots.
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