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    "id": 1106222,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David ole Sankok",
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        "legal_name": "David Ole Sankok",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to speak on the Employment (Amendment) Bill (National Assembly Bill No. 79 of 2019) that was moved by Hon. Gideon Keter. Hon. Gideon Keter is a youth who is properly representing the youth in this House. We know that the employment issue is very emotive when it comes to the youth. Currently, our country has four million unemployed youth. That is a ticking time bomb if not taken care of. The youth have always been taken for granted in this country. You remember the shenanigans around the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) where the youth were promised tax holidays and waivers yet they are unemployed. How do you waive taxes for somebody who was not paying taxes in the first place? Hon. Keter is simply saying that the youth need employment not tax holidays. We thank God that the document was declared illegal, unconstitutional, null and void because it was devoid of any assistance to the youth who are a ticking time bomb because of unemployment. Article 54 of our Constitution is very express when it comes to the employment of persons living with disabilities. It states that 5 per cent of all job opportunities in this country should be allocated to persons living with disabilities. As it is currently, the Cabinet is not properly constituted in line with Article 54 of our Constitution because there is no person living with disabilities in the Cabinet - even though I heard that the Cabinet has not sat for the past eight months meaning that Kenya is on auto-pilot. The Cabinet is normally the highest organ in terms of security and development of all the issues that affect our country. Again, the positions of Chief Administrative Secretaries (CAS) and Principal Secretaries (PS) are not properly constituted in line with Article 54 of the Constitution because they lack persons living with disabilities apart from the PS position where we have Hon. Josephta Mukobe representing persons living with disabilities. If the highest organ of Government management - the Executive - does not represent persons living with disabilities, our employment is in question in terms of representation because it does not adhere to the standards of our Constitution. Our youth are suffering out there. Hon. Keter came up with a Bill concerning potential employees being requested to produce a Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) Clearance Certificate, a Tax Compliance Certificate and a Certificate of Good Conduct. They end up The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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