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    "id": 1494228,
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    "speaker_name": "Mandera West, UDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Yusuf Adan",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I beg to reply. The Committee not only looked at employment on ethnic basis, but it also looked at employment diversity in public institutions and not private because the Constitution is slightly silent on the mandate of this Committee as to whether we are also able to look at the private sector. But since we are coming up with an amendment to the Bill, the House can guide and also include the private sector. The Committee looked at employment diversity in terms of age, gender, ethnicity, race, religion, disability and socio- economic backgrounds. That is what is envisaged. Yesterday, as Members were contributing, they talked a lot about the levels or classes of employment. If you look at the complete Report, we have senior level, middle cadre level and lower level. So, when we talk about a university somewhere in Western Kenya which I mentioned yesterday and raised some very hot discussions, 78 per cent of the staff come from one ethnic community. If somebody wants to look at the levels, it is there in the full Report. Please check. You will find that probably, the majority are in the lower cadre. But what the Constitution says is diversity and equal opportunity in all cadres. It does not tell us about lower or the higher cadre. This is the second Report. I tabled the first Report before this and it is still in the process somewhere. That first Report is the one that covers majority of the bigger institutions such as KRA. Yesterday, there was debate on statistics of merging communities like the Mijikenda. We derive our levels of ethnic communities from the Kenya Bureau of Standards. The highest community in terms of population ratio in Kenya, as far as the national population is concerned, is 17 per cent. The law allows up to 30 per cent of employment opportunities to be taken up by one community. We are coming up with an amendment of the law which says that the maximum a community can take is 20 per cent. If the highest is 17 per cent in terms of population ration and we have even added 3 per cent, there should be no complaint if we are looking at equity and equality. We are going to have more reports. We are going to have at least one report every quarter and see. I am also requesting this House to support the National Cohesion Integration Bill, 2023 when it comes up for discussion here. Let them support it and include whatever small issues like private sector by decreasing or increasing the quota system. Hon. Temporary Speaker, today, we have a crisis of employment. It is a time bomb we are sitting on, particularly for the youth. Trying to expand employment should be our priority. Otherwise, it is very dangerous. You saw what Gen-Zs did to us the other day. It is because majority of them are unemployed. If they were employed, they would not have had time to come and attack Parliament. With those few remarks, I beg to move."
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