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    "id": 412846,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/412846/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Okoth",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 12482,
        "legal_name": "Kenneth Odhiambo Okoth",
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    "content": "When we go to page 995, this is very important to the youth of this country. It deals with the National Youth Council Act 10 of 2009. The Bill proposes to amend the National Youth Council to streamline the membership of the Youth Advisory Board and further clarifies its functions. There is nothing wrong with National Youth Council Act as it is. Trying to amend it to take away the powers of the Youth Council that has been established and voted by the Kenyan youth to serve and advocate for their interests and abrogating its powers and prerogatives to give to a Cabinet Secretary to appoint an advisory board, is a very significant issue. That will control the youth council. It will not manage its own matters. It will only get advice from the Cabinet Secretary. I think it is a betrayal by the Jubilee Government to attempt to take away the rights of the National Youth Council and we have seen this systematic approach to cripple the National Youth Council through the denial of funding for the last two years. This year, we as Parliament allocated funding to it. But the funding has not fully reached the Council. So, it seems sinister to me, and I fully oppose it. I hope this will be dropped and let the National Youth Council be fully implemented as it has been set up."
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