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    "id": 416785,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Odanga",
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        "legal_name": "Geoffrey Makokha Odanga",
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    "content": "them to ensure that they get this. The problem that we have with the laws that we make is that we sometimes make them and they just remain at that. You find that many of these establishments, even when it comes to employment, we have been talking of 30 per cent youth, but it does not happen. In many organizations and committees that we have all over, from the national Government up to the local levels, we have not really gone further to ensure that the youths get their rightful share of, at least, 30 per cent. We must ensure that this is complied with. I want to support the Bill because it is also seeking to mainstream the youth in as far as economic development is concerned in our areas. But we should make is easier for the youth to register their firms. It is so difficult, tedious and costly. We should go forward and make sure that it is easier for them to have these companies, so that we can give them the contracts that we are talking about. I also want us to be aware that as we are talking, there are cartels out there of people above the age of the youth, namely, old men and women, busy forming firms and companies that they want to use in the name of the youths, so that the youths are shortchanged. If you look at the firms, you think that they belong to the youths, but in actual sense, they belong to the older men and women. There must be put in place mechanism and measures to ensure that if they are companies for the youth getting these contracts, indeed, these contracts are for the youth. The issue of interest rates by the banks and loaning institutions as has been suggested here, should be looked into. In most of the cases, it takes long even before these youths or the companies are paid after contracting because of the Government red tape. Sometimes the contracting firms take too long before they are paid."
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