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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orwoba",
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    "content": "I have relayed the same information to the committee. I told them that I feel the number of years being stipulated as a minimum qualification for a person to be Chair or CEO will lock out our youth who could have the competencies. If we say that the minimum qualification should be a degree, what about those who go to Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institutes? That provision will lock them out. As I said, this has been a difficult Bill to even move because the stakeholders involved, including Members of the Committee on Information, Communication and Technology have been difficult. I celebrate the fact that we have reached the Second Reading but I do not want to lose sight of what the Bill was intended to do. That is something I will pick up. Madam Temporary Speaker, the intention of this Bill is to push for job creation for our youth and ensure that we have oversight for any money taken from the exchequer by any authority or individual. For purposes of continuity and scaling up our innovation centres, we need a legal framework. I hope that while we are pushing for this, that is going to be seen by those who are going to interact with the Bill. It is an issue of safeguarding our spaces, ensuring we do not export our jobs to servers abroad and ensuring that investors who want to come and pump in money have the security of operating with a legal framework. With those few remarks, Madam Temporary Speaker, pursuant to Standing Order No.66(3), I request that putting of the question be deferred to a later date."
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