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    "id": 1013538,
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    "speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon (Dr.) Wilberforce Oundo",
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        "legal_name": "Wilberforce Ojiambo Oundo",
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    "content": "Secondly, is the issue of retirement age which the amendment simply moves the prescription of the retirement age from Regulations to the main Act. It is a welcome move, but obviously we must be cognisant of the fact that there will be circumstances within the Civil Service that generally will require retention of some cadre of employees who probably have exceeded the retirement age. I would not imagine, probably, tying a whole Head of State that he must employ or appoint somebody for certain age in certain positions. So, it will be important at that particular time of the Committee of the whole House to move a further amendment to our amendment to give circumstances under which the same can be varied or allowed the discretion of some appointing optional positions. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, this also brings into question the issue of employment. We seem to have dramatised the issue of employment in the Civil Service. Indeed, all over the world, the Civil Service is becoming leaner and leaner. Employment opportunities are no longer in the Public Service. Employment opportunities are in entrepreneurship and, indeed, in the private sector. It is a challenge that goes to all of us, especially as parents, to condition our children not to believe that the only form of employment is white-collar job or where you have a desk, a telephone extension and a swinging chair. The money is in Technical, Industrial, Vocational and Entrepreneurship Training (TIVET) technical skills. In that area, you do not bother about retirement age. In principle, I support this Amendment Bill with reservations. We must invest in our youths. Giving them wheelbarrows, slashes and nondescript tools is really an act of disrespect. It is an act of extending poverty among our youths. With those few remarks, I support."
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