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    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/407380/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mohamed Diriye",
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        "legal_name": "Diriye Abdullahi Mohamed",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to oppose the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill, 2013 for some reasons. First, I am disappointed that hon. Sakaja, who is the Kenya Young Parliamentarians Association (KYPA) Chairman, is supporting this Bill yet he knows that a lot of youths will miss jobs. If we remove the right to bail, a lot of youths will spend long periods of time in remand. So, as our KYPA Chairman, it is good for hon. Sakaja to present the plight of the youth, particularly in the areas of job creation and incarceration. We know very well that as we speak, there are many NGOs which have already closed shop, citing hostile environment. This is partly contributed to by the drum-beating that has been going on and the introduction of such legislation. One of the things that this Bill seeks to amend is the POP Act. I would like to state that in Kenya, there are areas where the NGOs are the government. There is no other government in such areas. Examples of such areas are Wajir, Garissa and Mandera in the north eastern region of this country. Non-governmental organisations are none State actors. They are parallel to the Government. They are supposed to provide services where the Government cannot do so. They operate in areas like the north eastern region, where we do not have proper Government services. I dare repeat that there are no proper Government services in the border area of my constituency of Wajir South, and that it is only NGOs which provide life-saving services like water, health and education. Were it not for NGOs like Oxfam in Wajir, which has done more than the Government of Kenya (GOK) for the last 20 years, maybe things would be very different today for the people of Wajir. So, it is very disappointing and disheartening for the Wanjikus and the people in the rural areas to see the Government they elected trying to erode all the gains made over the last few years."
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