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    "id": 557185,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wakhungu",
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        "legal_name": "Chrisantus Wamalwa Wakhungu",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to mention the issue of public procurement. We know that it is a commitment from the Jubilee Government that 30 per cent of all public tenders must go to the youth. The Bill on this passed through this House. We debated and said that 30 per cent of the job opportunities in the county governments and the national Government should go to the youth. When you look at the Jubilee Manifesto and the CORD Manifesto, you realise that the emphasis is on job opportunities. In the CORD Manifesto, we have talked about jobs. We can only move forward if there is a clear implementation framework in place, so that we can operationalise this. Having a database and an authority in place will enable us to measure the number of the youths we have and the skills that they have. Professor Kaplan Norton in Harvard Business School, who is the founder of a balance score card, said that if you cannot measure it, you cannot manage it. If we are going to have this Authority in place, we are going to have a database in place that will enable us know the number of skills that we have and in what particular field. We will also know the number of youths that we have in the streets. Right now, we are talking about the two-third gender rule, but we are not asking ourselves what we are doing as far as the issue of the youth is concerned. Article 55(c) of the Constitution is very clear. It states that:-"
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