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"content": "I would, therefore, argue that I do not doubt that this piece of legislation will benefit the nation if it is really looked through further, when it is goes to the Committee in the next stage. But I really urge that we do not also dismiss the spirit upon which it is based, because it is a noble one. If you consider some of the procurement that we are dealing with even at the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) level, under the current procurement law, we are actually allowed to give preferential treatment to local contractors. For you to achieve that preferential treatment for the local contractors, it is does require that you do some kind of discrimination in favour of the local people. The basis upon which you are doing that is because you also want to develop capacity locally for this kind of contract. That means that you limit the applicability of the competitive principle in terms of other criteria, so that you can give way and room to one of the local contractors. It ought to apply the same way with regard to the youth. I have not had a problem with the applicability of that rule at the constituency level. Indeed, it has been very helpful. Actually, if the country wants the citizens to own development, the most that it must strive to do is to bring the local people to own those projects. Even as we implement those projects, we have seen the participation of youth. So, the 25 per cent requirement proposed by hon. Wamalwa would even have been met in certain cases. If they are not being met, the threshold will easily be achieved when we have made this kind of law."
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