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    "id": 1439950,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo",
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    "content": "Inevitably, those are the youth who are in active training. If you introduce the words “job seeker”, you expand the application of this incentive to anybody else. The danger here is that we are perpetuating that a job seeker must have a 'written job'. Under Vision 2030, the Third Medium Term Plan (MTP III) as expanded in the Fourth Medium Term Plan (MTP IV), a job does not need to be formal employment. You can run your own job or be a self-entrepreneur and not be a job seeker. We are stereotyping that old mentality that a job has to be a white-collar job in the definition of a job seeker. We will move to amend that and erase any reference to a job seeker but retain the youth. The amendments in the Energy Act 2023 are good and progressive. However, there is a provision that says, any vessel that is used to convey the vandalised or stolen equipment or appliance referred to in subsection (1) shall be forfeited to the State. There are forgeries, car thefts, misuse of cars, wear and tear, and unauthorised use of motor vehicles. Why would you punish an owner of a motor vehicle for reasons that he does not even know? If I may give an example, last year there was a contractor who brought materials and some people came to see the materials. The vehicle they used was a stolen vehicle with a forged number plate. Probably, we need to put a provision that says: “As long as the owner of the vehicle can prove that he did not authorise his vehicle for use…” Allow me to make a comment on the Parliamentary Service Act and the Judicial Service Act. On these, we are trying to legislate matters that are purely administrative in nature. If it were not for the intransigency of the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC), we would not have gotten to this level. These epitomises misuse of powers conferred to any particular state agency in the Constitution or in an Act of Parliament. The SRC to a layman's and a lawmaker's understanding was to basically deal with salaries. The basics of mileage, sleeping allowance and daily allowances are mundane matters that a constitutional commission such as the SRC should not go into. However, we are forced to legislate on this because the SRC has become rogue, so to speak. It has usurped powers beyond the powers that it has been given."
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