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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Baiya",
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        "legal_name": "Peter Njoroge Baiya",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I have listened attentively to the arguments by my colleagues, including those by hon. Kimunya and his concern about the possible objections to this kind of amendments, on the grounds of discrimination. I would answer by saying that the Constitution itself does, indeed, anticipate discrimination. Nowhere is it said that discrimination is outlawed. Indeed, when the Constitution says that there will be minimum gender balancing – at least one-third – when you try to apply that, what you really end up doing is actually discriminating. You resort to discrimination to achieve the result prescribed by the Constitution. So, what is being proposed by hon. Wamalwa is only one more criteria. It may have a discriminative role, but this is legitimate discrimination to bring up a section of citizens who have been disadvantaged. I am very sure that if there was any legitimacy in what he was possibly arguing, that is also taken care of to the extent of his argument that some of the youth are well off. I would like to say that most of the well off youth are, first of all, in the minority. By and large, if there is any injustice across the generational divide, it is actually against the young people. They experience unemployment most of the time. They are also subjected to other criteria such as experience. They actually suffer from all manner of disadvantages. They have not had ample time to accumulate stocks of capital as their older competitors do. Indeed, one of the questions they have always asked is: “If experience or capital is one of the conditions, where are we the young people expected really to go?”"
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