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    "id": 1013518,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Makueni, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Daniel Maanzo",
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        "legal_name": "Daniel Kitonga Maanzo",
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    "content": "serving on contractual basis, although you are above 60 years. This happens in specified places like the National Treasury and the Office of the President, for example, the current Head of Civil Service. When it is an appointment of the President to serve in his office for a specific task, how does this Act come into play and how will it safeguard this? Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, you will realise that many people retire, set up businesses and hire youth. As you talk about work, the two presidential candidates in the USA are almost 80 years. We do not have a youth running for presidency in the USA although they have capacity and resources, especially those who have invested in Information Technology (IT). They have left politics to the experts. I would like us to look at this law in totality. There is a lot of work at the Third Reading to purify this Act so that it conforms to the law. I support employment creation for the youth. The youth are now shining in the IT sector. Most of the youth can now work online. Job seeking is now online and it is not limited to Kenya. Many young people are working online for companies outside Kenya and they are able to deliver and are paid online. I want to urge our youth to access the internet using their phones. The universities are now operating online – lectures are ongoing, because of COVID-19. We must look at the future and where the world is going. I once attended an international conference on Savings and Credit Cooperative Societies (SACCOs) and there was a discussion that, in future, we will have lorries without drivers. We will have vehicles that use technology to deliver goods without drivers. I support the amendment, and I thank you."
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