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    "id": 197322,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Nuh",
    "speaker_title": "The Member for Bura",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 114,
        "legal_name": "Nuh Nassir Abdi",
        "slug": "nuh-abdi"
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    "content": "March 19, 2008 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 291 But I am not sure whether I am the youngest! This small body of mine has been a big disadvantage because I have been standing up for the last so many days and I get lost within hon. Members. I thank the Temporary Deputy Speaker for having seen me. The Speech of the President dwelt so much on providing opportunities to the youth and women. He congratulated the women for their numbers in this House. He asked us to pass laws that are friendly to women and the youth. I would say, for once, that opportunities for the youth and women should not always be guided by legislation. There should be goodwill on the part of leaders who appoint members of the public to some of those positions. That is because if we tie the opportunities that are supposed to be provided to the youth and women to some bit of law or the Constitution, I think we will have to get to every bit of appointment and say it is for the youth or women. For example, the House Business Committee (HBC) falls short of the expectations of the youth and women. I think these are some of the things that should not be allowed to pass. They set a precedence that some of the people who are already marginalised are marginalised even more, when it comes to big positions. This honourable House should provide a very good example and inspire some hope to the womenfolk and youth out there. But because of some disadvantages, whether cultural or economical back at home, they were not able to make it to positions where they could make decisions for Kenyans. So much has been said about education. Free primary education has seen the rise of enrolment of pupils in schools. But we should ask: Do we need pupils to stay in schools and that is all!? I heard an hon. Member complain that some of the pupils are studying under trees. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would bring to the attention of this House that it is not only infrastructure in the form of buildings or classrooms, that will provide excellence for education. I never saw the door of a classroom until I went to my class four. Maybe the hon. Minister for Water and Irrigation might not have seen a classroom until he went to class five."
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