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    "id": 365186,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/365186/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Chanzu",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 11,
        "legal_name": "Yusuf Kifuma Chanzu",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker, Sir. I rise to support this Motion on the National Youth Council and for the Government to allocate and release funds to it for it to discharge its mandate. It is a very good and important initiative. I want to congratulate the hon. Member, hon. Zuleikha Hassan Juma for bringing this Motion. We talk about issues to do with the youth particularly when it comes to times of campaigns. The people we see running up and down to make our campaign messages to be felt are the youth but immediately after that, everything about them is forgotten. In fact, I believe the Mover of this Motion in her brief historical background and statement that she made, she missed one thing. This is that the election of the youth to these positions was being done as we approached the general elections and I believe that was one way of trying to mobilise the youth to be able to be used and then in the middle they were abandoned. In fact, some of us had a lot of problems with the youth because the moment they were told to come to Kasarani, others came and others got lost. There was a lot of chaos. So, I believe there must be time when we must put this in place – some kind of institutional arrangement which can cater for the youth. In fact, we keep on talking about approximations. Sometimes we say that the youth constitute 70 per cent of the population. Sometimes we talk about 75 per cent. Today, I am happy since I have heard"
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