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    "id": 414878,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/414878/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Sakaja",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, all of us are politicians. Wherever we go, we keep telling our young people to take advantage and come together in groups to register businesses, but we have not provided the legal framework through which they can actually access these opportunities. We devolved almost Kshs210 billion in the last financial year and this year we will probably devolve a higher amount. It is important for us as the National Assemble to ring-fence a certain amount of money or a certain amount of this value for the young people in Gwassi, Kisumu, Central Kenya and Nairobi to be able to procure. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I would like to point out that we know that the Government has actually put in place regulations to effect 30 per cent of procurement opportunities to the youth, women and people living with disability. But we all know that regulations do not have the same force of law as an Act of Parliament. We all know the challenges that we have seen since 2012 when the former President, hon. Mwai Kibaki, provided for 10 per cent of procurement opportunities for young people. Very few young people got, if any. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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