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    "id": 557210,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/557210/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ng’ongo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "However, there are a few things that can be addressed and need to be looked at. We probably could be giving the Cabinet Secretary too many powers, but we need to look at it through amendments to see if you can regulate the powers of the Cabinet Secretary. There is also a clause that I am a bit uncomfortable with and that is Clause 25(f). Clause 25 says, if I can quickly go there, the Authority shall keep and maintain an up-to-date register of all youth seeking employment. One of the requirements is that that register should contain ethnicity and tribe of the youth. Sometimes we are overplaying this idea of ethnicity and tribe. Why do you need my ethnicity in the database? Sometimes it can be counterproductive. Some people may just use my ethnicity to discriminate against me and we know where we are as a country so I do not see the value of that. Finally I want to advise the Chair of the TNA - I am now speaking as the Chairman of the ODM, the largest party which is accidentally out of Government - that even as we look at these processes and this good legislation, the Government must encourage investment in this country and more so create opportunities in the counties so that more employment opportunities are available for all Kenyans. In that case, we will not even require some of these strategies to absorb the youth. They will automatically find employment. The route to go is to give capacity to our 47 counties."
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