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    "content": "Anne Waiguru; she has been doing a sterling job. In her office, there is a director of procurement, one Ms. Otunga, who has been a single person battalion. She has led the entire secretariat to actually deliver to young people. This Bill seeks to ensure that our young people do not have to come all the way to Treasury to register their businesses. They can actually have those businesses registered at the grassroots. Those are the aspirations we have been trying to bring as an amendment or I should bring it separately. But we will bring it so that the young people in Suba, Mbita or in Nyeri can get certification from the ground or wherever they are. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, even as I also thank the young Parliamentarian Association for supporting this Bill, I would also like to caution unscrupulous businessmen who have been trying to use and have been using young people to register businesses and they are the ones who benefit. We have made it very clear that there shall be strict monitoring by the Public Procurement Oversight Authority (PPOA) and the Joint Committee on National Cohesion and Equal Opportunity; which I also happen to chair. Every quarter we will be able to tell who has been following this and who has not. As I close, I would like to appeal to the Senate, because this is a Bill concerning counties; we actually started and provided that the counties must also now for the first time adhere to the 30 per cent rule. I would like to appeal to our hon. Senators to stand with the young people, women and people living with disabilities so that they can actually gain from these provisions. With those remarks, I beg to move."
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