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    "id": 546201,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Sakaja",
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "are not giving youth contracts, which Cabinet Secretary is not giving women contracts and which entities are not abiding by this provision. Clause 14 bases itself on the issue of a Parliamentary report every six months. This is a report that we shall be taking very seriously. Clause 15 talks about preferences to facilitate attainment of the quota in order for the State to achieve. This is just stating the principle which is actually enshrined in our Constitution in Articles 55 and 227(2). Clause 17 is also fundamental because the Constitution provides for a secretariat within the National Treasury that will actually operationalize a preference and reservations register for this young people. We know they have been registered but there is nothing that protects them. For instance, there is only one lady, Mrs. Otunga who has been handling this alone. Many young people in far-flung areas across this country are not able to get registration. Women are not able to register but this is providing for them a secretariat that will monitor and evaluate implementation of the preferences, provide training and capacity building for the target groups. This is meant to show our young people, women or people with disability how to tender for this contract and how to compete so that ultimately this will not just be provisions on paper but they will be able to be implemented."
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