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    "id": 1106292,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1106292/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nyando, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jared Okello",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Jared Odoyo Okelo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for this opportunity. On the same breath I want to thank my brother, Hon. Gideon Keter, for coming up with such an incisive amendment of the Employment Act. It is true that as a nation, we are bogged down by documentation, some of which are utterly unnecessary. When people apply for jobs, there are five critical documents that they have to annex to their letter of application, some of which according to the employers are very critical in determining the character of a person that they would want to recruit. As we know in this country, those documents are again susceptible to abuse and manipulation and, therefore, there is nothing that stops an applicant from annexing fake documents. The employers have now wherewith or capacity to determine what is fake and what is genuine. This is what should happen. If we still insist that these documents are so necessary, let the employers – be it the Public Service Commission, ministries because they have a latitude to employ certain number of employees directly; or individual business holders or enterprises – on their own volition write to those investigative authorities. That way, those investigative authorities would hence reply and state that indeed we have perused all the files of so and so, whom you intend to recruit for employment, and the file is clear, he has no criminal record. That is the direction that should be taken if at all those documents are anything to go by. From where I stand, I have never been convinced that if somebody holds a clearance certificate from the DCI, the CRB, HELB and those others, that that is a testament of purity. That 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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