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    "id": 137712,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/137712/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Raila",
    "speaker_title": "The Prime Minister",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Raila Amolo Odinga",
        "slug": "raila-odinga"
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    "content": "Hon. Kigen wanted to know how we will ensure others will get the jobs. We are actually going to expand that programme. The programme was launched in March, 2009 and, as hon. Members will remember, we took a long time before we approved the Supplementary Budget. So, the funds were not made available. That is the reason why it was not rolled out the way it had been planned. We now have sufficient time. What happened is that the money that had been earmarked and approved in the Supplementary Budget went back to the Treasury. That is usually the case. So, that money had to be re- voted back and then made available. That is the reason why the work had to stop until money had been made available again from the Treasury. So, within this month of August, we are going to begin again to roll out the programme countrywide. Yes, the issue of double dealing and double accounting as raised by Ms. A. Abdalla is noted. Those are some of the weaknesses that we discovered which we will deal with. This programme is being rolled out in both rural and urban areas. In urban areas, we have so many unemployed youth. That is why we are doing it in urban areas as well as rural areas. This programme, if properly implemented, has the potential of providing employment to many of our youth who are roaming our towns and rural areas at the moment."
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