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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mandera West, UDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Yusuf Adan",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker for giving me this opportunity. I stand to second the Public Service (Values and Principles) (Amendment) Bill, No.46 of 2022 by Hon. Abdul Rahim Dawood. Hon. Dawood has ably exhausted all the supporting arguments that are required to convince this House beyond reasonable doubt that this Bill is timely and important. I will add just a few. First and foremost, as the Chairman of the Committee on National Cohesion and Equal Opportunity, for the last few months, my Committee has interrogated the management teams of about 32 organisations or Government State Departments. The objective was to see whether those State Departments have complied with the Constitution as far as the issue of employment opportunities is concerned. We also wanted to establish whether they are complying with the legal requirement that 30 per cent of government procurement of goods and services goes to youth, women and PWDs. As per the Report that I tabled just before our recess, the situation is very ugly. We found that only four out of the 46 communities in this country enjoy the rights that the Constitution has given to Kenyans. It is very ugly indeed. We cannot let the situation continue as it is. As Hon. Dawood said, while trying to implement the law to the letter, there are a few lacuna within the law that need to be addressed so that it can become more effective. A good 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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