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    "id": 667341,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Njuki",
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        "legal_name": "Onesmus Muthomi Njuki",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Allow me to cite the analogy which is normally used to describe the situation in the country – the famous kazi kwa vijana, pesa kwa wazee . You allocate 30 per cent of the available opportunities of procurement to the youth, who are 70 per cent of the country’s population. It is a paradox of the whole situation because that is where we have the most energetic, productive people and the highest percentage of the population which is very needy. According to what we passed in the Constitution, we are denying the youth this opportunity. Before the current Constitution was promulgated in 2010, you can imagine how the situation was like. Despite the youth being given the opportunity by the Constitution to get 30 per cent of the jobs, we still have a serious problem of succession in most public institutions in this country. The youth are not being given opportunity to display what they can do because they have not taken over from the older generation. That is why sometimes we keep on recycling the older generation in jobs which would be done by the youth if they had the opportunity to learn early enough."
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