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    "id": 1017652,
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    "speaker_name": "Alego-Usonga, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Samuel Atandi",
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Onunga Atandi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. I am of the view that having a youth to Chair the Council does not mean that, that council will be more effective. Remember, I have been a youth before and now an adult. Therefore, I am opposed to this idea that if somebody is a youth chairing an institution such as this, then it will serve the interest of the youth. We need to have somebody chairing it who is not a youth. I am saying that because imagine you are having the PS for the National Treasury and all these other senior Government officers in an institution where someone is a youth who has never even worked anywhere, does not have any professional or technical experience; does not know anything about best practice and you are thinking that such a person is going to give the youth the opportunity that they deserve. I am of the view that we may need to open up this position of the Chairperson for somebody who must not be a youth. This is because we want effectiveness and performance. Anyway, if you are an old man, you have been a youth before. Secondly, I have seen that there is a requirement that you must be a degree holder for you to be a chair. Who said that one must be a degree holder for you to chair such a body? Even in this House, there are many people who are not degree holders and are Members here. So, let us delete that aspect requiring that the Chairperson must be a degree holder. We can go for other factors other than education."
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