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    "speaker_name": "Mr. ole Metito",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Regional Authorities Development",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Judah Katoo Ole-Metito",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I wish to thank the Deputy Leader of Government Business for donating three minutes of his time to me. As I support the Motion, I am going to talk on two issues; the first one being youth affirmative action. It has been said severally that the youth can be given affirmative action on the economic front by taking deliberate action on the procurement laws to give 30 per cent of Government tenders to the youth, right from the constituency level, through the county level, to the national level. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, on employment, affirmative action should be considered for the youth by removing the requirement of experience for them. Once they complete their training programmes in university or in the middle-level colleges, the youth should not be asked for experience of ten years and beyond, for them to get jobs. It is also very discriminative that the youth must attain a certain age in order for them to be employed at certain levels in Government and in the private sector. In the education sector, affirmative action should be extended to the youth by widening the net of help or even by giving a subsidised education programme to universities, so that many of our youth can acquire skills. Some of them lack training due to lack of financial assistance. On the issue of funding of the wide Government levels, from the county to the national levels, we can finance them by boosting private sector investment through tackling of corruption, simplifying and shortening of procedures, and cutting the cost and time of getting business licences. That way, we can realise a revamped or vibrant private sector, which can help in financing the two levels of Government. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as we devolve resources to the county level, we should also consider devolving further by ensuring equity within the counties. A county may be having several constituencies within it. Therefore, a further devolution is required in order to avoid marginalisation within the counties themselves. In the electoral law we are going to enact, we need to provide for party democracy and transparency. If it is not possible for us to do electronic voting fully, we must ensure that there will be electronic tallying. Voter registration should go hand-in-hand with issuance of identification cards. With those remarks, I beg to support."
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