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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ochieng",
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        "legal_name": "David Ouma Ochieng'",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. Hon. Sakaja is my Chair in the caucus called “Kenya Young Members of Parliament Association” and he knows the definition of “youth” very well. I have discussed this with him and we have made comparisons with what happens elsewhere. Youth and those intending to benefit from this programme are the youth. Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, the moment you open up and even if you allowed non-youth to own only one per cent, there is a lot of room for cheating and for making this programme not to work. I want us to use the constitutional provision of Article 260 which says: “Youth means the collectivity of all individuals in the Republic who have attained the age of eighteen years; but have not attained the age of thirty-five years.” So, companies owned by these people are the ones being approved because they belong to that category but the moment you open it up and say only 70 per cent should be youth and any other person can join, then you are saying that you can have anybody giving money to these young people to go and look for tenders, finance them and have business. The youth will not benefit, especially the youth in the rural areas. Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, the matter of the youth is a constitutional matter and I want you to rule on it. The proposal that 70 per cent should own and 30 per cent can be owned by somebody else goes against the Constitution. Companies owned by the youth should be owned by the youth 100 per cent."
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