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    "id": 416802,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/416802/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "I will be bringing an amendment to provide for other categories that are provided for in Article 227 (b). That is the category of persons that are marginalized in the past. It is not just women and youth, but even geographical marginalization to include places like Mbita that have been marginalized, so that they can get a fair percentage. I would also like to say that one of the things that has not been mentioned, that as much as it is good that we are giving the youth opportunities - I have already started effecting that in Mbita - what I can say is that there are vicious corruption networks. I hear people saying that corruption will be devolved, it will not be devolved. It is already alive, well and kicking before devolution happened. We must also put measures in place to enable the youth, when you give them contracts, to actually get the benefits of those contracts. One of the youth that I gave a contract came back and told me that, out of the capital that he put, he actually ran into losses because the cost of servicing corruption was higher that what he was doing. As a country, we must agree that, we either do away with corruption, or we bring a law to legalize corruption. Otherwise, the youth will not get anything from what they want to do. I support."
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