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    "id": 1439969,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Millie Odhiambo-Mabona",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for this opportunity. I will be brief. I know that several Members have spoken to the amendments on the National Youth Authority Act. However, I wish to disagree with them. Hon. Sakaja brought the Bill due to the concern over the issue of youth unemployment. We acknowledge the fact that there are many people who are not in the youth age bracket who are unemployed. In fact, we know many people who have qualified as teachers, and have retired before being employed by the Teachers Service Commission (TSC). Having said that, the greatest challenge we are facing in the country is youth unemployment. We can see this with the rising cases of insecurity, violence and theft. Yesterday, in my constituency, a woman was abducted from Ogongo Market, and last week, a boda rider was killed. The perpetrators had already stolen his first motorcycle and were coming for his second after killing him and gang raping his wife, who had given birth 15 days earlier. The reason we have these kinds of situations is because we have many idle youths. They have no opportunities in life, and have become desperate. They become thieves and even get into other evil activities. The challenge is that sometimes we think common sense is common yet it is not. If we open this up to all unemployed people, a retired person in his or her 70s would be deemed unemployed and therefore given a job because he or she falls within that category. I do not support such situations."
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