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    "id": 721859,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "should bring an amendment to make the appointment competitive. We are bound to create semi- dictators out of the CSs when we give them powers that are unchecked. On the Crops Act, there is a Board of Trustees that is being formed. I know that counties have a role in crops. I am just wondering why we do not have, in this law, a provision for a representative of the Council of Governors or a provision on some role that the Council of Governors would play in the Board of Trustees. Again, I wish to comment on the National Employment Authority. I would like the Mover to explain why there are many amendments that take away opportunities for the youth by generalizing them. However, if I remember well, the idea behind the National Employment Authority, even though it focuses specifically on national aspects, was to deal with youth unemployment. So, when we make it general, it loses the very essence of this Act which, in the first place, was to focus on the youth. When there are amendments taking away the focus on the youth--- I wish Hon. Sakaja was here. I do not know whether he has already been consulted on this or not. He was very passionate about this Act. I wish he could look at it and advise why we are moving the focus from the youth to now generalizing everybody. Some of us have either got opportunities or have missed the train at some point. Our focus has been the youth. We have said it here that the situation of our youth is a ticking time-bomb. In fact, they are already a bomb! They are no longer ticking. They are already blowing all over the place with all manner of negative things. It is important that we arrest the issue of youth unemployment by focusing on them. The new insertion in Clause 8A is very welcome, especially for our women who get mistreated in the Middle East countries. If you look at the media, hardly a month passes before you see a case of a Kenyan woman in the Middle East who has been thrown off some building, maimed, has died, has been detained without identity or has been mistreated in various ways. This law is very welcome. The only thing I would want to say is that they need to counter- reference it to the Counter Trafficking Act that I moved in this House because it talks largely of the same issues, especially as relates to women and girls. The provisions which are included under this sub-clause are very welcome and I support. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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