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    "id": 325100,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/325100/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Namwamba",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 108,
        "legal_name": "Ababu Tawfiq Pius Namwamba",
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this Question was filed under the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Development, which referred it to my Ministry, which, in turn, forwarded it to the Ministry responsible for the Kenya Police Service. This was in the belief that they possess the statistical data on reported suicide cases in the country and will be, therefore, best placed to respond. My Ministry holds the opinion that the Question is on a subject that does not exactly fall within the mandate assigned to it by the Government, strictly speaking. Nonetheless, in the absence of a response from elsewhere, with the exercise of my Ministry’s general responsibility for youth affairs and in the spirit of collective responsibility in the Government, we offer this response. I beg to reply. (a) Yes, the Government is aware of rising cases of suicide among young people in the country. But while we, as a Ministry, are generally aware and conversant will all trends and development of youth issues in the country, regarding this subject on suicide among young people, the Ministry only gets to know of the cases as and when they are reported by the media. Indeed, my Ministry does not maintain data on these cases since this mandate does not exactly fall under it. Members will agree with me that a suicide case is more likely to be reported to the police than to our Ministry."
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