Female Members of Parliament on Tuesday night nursed any shortfalls in their relationship with their male counterparts ahead of the gender bill vote at the National Assembly.
The women MPs organised a surprised night-out with the men in parliament just to make sure they do not lose any of them in the voting on Wednesday afternoon.
On Wednesday morning, more than two-thirds of the lawmakers were already at the parliament buildings, a turnout Mvita MP Shariff Nassir described as historic.
Kandara MP Alice Wahome disclosed that they held a dinner for their male colleagues at Norfolk Hotel, where they promised to support the gender bill.
"Yesternight we took them for dinner, we ate together and discussed in detail and even today in the morning, we still woke up to engage them even though we still have a few who seem to be against us," stated Wahome.
She made the remarks at a time there were fears that the voting would suffer a setback as a result of failure to raise the threshold of 233 MPs.
For the Bill to sail through, it requires two-thirds majority or at least 233 of the 349 MPs in the National Assembly.
Failure to reach this threshold will mean that the Bill cannot progress to the next level and can only be reintroduced in the House after six months.
The Mvita MP was optimistic the MPs would turn up for the exercise given ODM had required all its elected leaders to be present and support the amendments proposed by Majority Leader Aden Duale.
"Every MP has to decide whether to participate or not but both sides of the House have advised their members to be in parliament. There are those who fear that parliament will be dissolved should the bill flop," observed Nassir.
Duale had, earlier in the day, assured the women MPs that the leaders were ready to take part in the voting.
He further indicated that should the exercise fail to materialise on Wednesday, the house may consider postponement of the voting to February 2019 after the December holidays.
