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    "content": "For the Ministry of State for Public Service, I only have one thing to say on the issue of women representation. There is still a big gap and I am asking the Minister of State for Public Service to look at the gender representation within the Ministries and the Public Service because women have a right to be employed and be within the Public Service. I know that it is a long restructuring process but we must bite the bullet and see that the women are represented with, at least, the one third for affirmative action that we are signatory to. I am asking again for the Minister to, please, look at this. I also want to speak about the Kazi Kwa Vijana programme. They stop this programme. I can assure you that even if you re-look at it, re-draw it or re-think it, it is already a letdown. They should take that money in the next process that they are taking as the Office of the Prime Minister and re-look at those billions of shillings and take them to the relevant Ministries. I suggest that they disburse them through the constituencies because there is no way that kind of money can be allowed to be wasted when it was allocated for young people. It is going to the offices and pockets of DCs and DOs. It is a shame! I suggest that we just stop this Kazi Kwa Vijana programme and re-look at a marshal plan for job creation for young people in this country. I want to finish by saying this: That the private sector round table meetings may be good on the face of it. But again, where are the women? I am raising this issue because I have done my research. Women have now formed their own association called the Kenya Women in Business Association. Women have unique problems in business, is it possible that the Prime Minister can find time to sit with Kenyan business women as he does with the big old boys club called the private sector because it does not represent the women in business? With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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