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    "id": 472315,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. There is a provision in this Bill for an annual report to be made on how the new dispensation will be fulfilled. I support this but I also agree – I believe it is probably Sen. Kajwang who said that penalties--- You know, when you set a threshold, there must be attendant penalties. If the county or national Government releases a report and we find that, in fact, they did not meet the 30 per cent threshold for youth, women and the disabled; or they release a report and we found that the 30 per cent women, youth and disabled were, in fact, fraudulent characters masquerading as such, there must be some attendant penalty to whoever files the report that will be carrying false information. Giving false information to a public entity is a criminal offence already under the law. So, we will deal with the county government and whoever is responsible for giving that information. For the veracity of this kind of information, we need to give the responsibility to a specific office because if we just say Government, it is too amorphous. We can say the head of the department where procurement is done or the head of the Ministry, or in the county government, the Chief Executive. They must be held to account that this is being done to support the youth of this country. More importantly, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it not enough just to say \"persons with disability.\" This may look laughable, but it is very important. When we are talking about persons with disability, for example, we have my good sister here who definitely needs positive support in many respects. You will go out there and you will find very fraudulent characters – a man with a twisted finger who stands there and says “I am disabled and I want to benefit from this.” We have seen it! Or a man with a squint stands there and says “I am disabled and I must benefit.”"
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