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    "id": 809005,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/809005/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Saku, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ali Dido",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Dido Ali Raso",
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    "content": "I want to thank the Hon. Member who brought this Motion. Without casting aspersions on it, we must build on it as Members and establish how we can build on this Motion so that we even take it back to the Ministry concerned. With our help as Members of the National Assembly, the Ministry can come up with a Bill on how the National Youth Service can be integrated into the wider job market. We should not limit it to only the disciplined forces. We should include all the Government agencies and departments. The genesis of NYS when it was founded was to provide an available reserve force for the Kenya Defence Forces. However, it never took grounding from that point because for many years, the KDF was not able to recruit directly from the NYS. This Motion does not reduce the training period and the recruitment cost. It brings a body of disciplined young men who are already tuned to a structured organised way of thinking into the disciplined forces or any other Government establishment for that matter. In other countries, they use what we call conscription where all young men and women between the ages of 18 and 22 years are taken to the disciplined forces. From that point, they have a card that gives them access to all the opportunities available in their country."
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