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    "id": 1017643,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Godfrey Osotsi",
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        "legal_name": "Godfrey Osotsi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. As much as I want to support the amendment, I am concerned because the Council seems very bloated with a membership of 16. That is way off the Mwongozo Guideline. Secondly, the criteria for identifying the 10 youth who are going to sit on the Council is a prerogative of the Cabinet Secretary. This is where we have a problem because we will end up having a body which is supposed to represent the interest of youth, but will not do so. This is because six members are brought in by the PS. The criterion is not very clear about the 10 youth who are going to be appointed by the CS. We have many youth organizations which should be given the chance to go through a process of selecting the 10 youth who will sit in the Council. As it is now, this is not going to be a representative body for the youth in this country. That is because of the process of the appointment of the 10 youth and the fact that the six members who sit on that Council are senior Government officials who will definitely intimidate the 10 youth who will sit there. So, I support the amendment but it would have been done better than this."
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