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    "id": 1381061,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ainabkoi, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Samwel Chepkonga",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I rise to support the recommendation that is contained in the Committee’s Report, dated 6th December 2023. I heard Hon. (Prof) Oundo claim that this Bill was sponsored in the Senate by a young person. That is very unfortunate. In fact, the import of this Bill has unintended consequence of suppressing the rights of the youth. It is not helping the youth in any way. Secondly, I have gone through the report and I am surprised that this Bill came to this House all the way from the Senate despite rejections by the Public Service Commission and Central Organisation of Trade Unions (COTU), which represents workers, as well as the Federation of Kenya Employers (FKE). So, the question that you ask is: whose interest is this Bill intended to serve? If it has been rejected by the employers and employees, whose interest is this Bill intended to serve? It is not intended to serve any interest of the worker in the marketplace. In fact, this Bill is in contravention of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) convention. It goes against the best international practice. It is in contravention of the ILO in which Kenya itself is a treaty member. If you are a treaty member, you know that the convention has been imported pursuant to Article 2 of the Constitution which says that all conventions in which Kenya is a signatory are laws of this country. If it is conflict with ILO treaty, then we should not even be wasting our time considering it. I should not waste my breath speaking to something that is in contravention of the Constitution. Anything that is unconstitutional should not even be entertained in this House. We should not be wasting the precious time of these Members of Parliament who should be resolving matters that are of concern to the people as required by the Constitution. The only favour that we can do to this proposal is to reject it in totality. We should not waste a lot of time. I do not want to take too much time. I support the report of the committee to reject this Bill. I thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
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