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    "id": 1400060,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1400060/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Starehe, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Maina",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Charles Kanyi Njagua",
        "slug": "charles-kanyi-njagua"
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to weigh in on the debate about the recruitment by different Government agencies and institutions. Nairobi has become disenfranchised because even when they come for recruitment, they tell the persons who are being recruited to look at the back of the identity cards. You know very well that most of the people were not born in Nairobi because a majority come from up-country. It is only us, Members of Parliament, who know our registered voters. We have the biggest number of registered voters in this country. Nairobi County accounts for 11 per cent of the registered voters in this country but, when it comes to opportunities and recruitments, we are combined in a common area. Therefore, we are saying, now that the Government has said that 80 per cent of the Kenya Defence Forces and Kenya Police recruitments will come from people who have gone through the National Youth Service, that it is only fair Nairobi is given an equal opportunity when it comes to such recruitments. Also, the recruitment should happen at the sub-county level. In Starehe Constituency, for example, I have 189,000 registered voters. So many youths are languishing in poverty in the informal settlements. If they are not given those opportunities, they do not have a chance to make it better in life. We have the highest number of people who have not gone to school and they depend on Government jobs. It is only fair that Nairobi be considered. Given its population, Nairobi should be given more slots during the /recruitments. Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I submit."
}