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    "id": 821540,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/821540/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kitutu Chache North, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jimmy Angwenyi",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Jimmy Nuru Ondieki Angwenyi",
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    "content": ". Where there are wise old men like me, things do not go wrong, they are clean. Dr. Francis Owino is qualified and I am glad that a committee identified him, his talents and recommended him for that position. I have done a study of six countries in the world which have moved from Third World to First world, starting with Singapore. There is one element that I have found in all these six countries; the element of imparting appropriate skills to the youths. Each of those countries that I have studied have the element that the Government undertook upon itself to impart appropriate skills to the youth. When the youth acquired the skills, the country was able to catapult itself to the First World. The programme that we had has been messed up by the latest developments where some cohorts who are hired in each of the constituencies in the country were supposed to work in the morning from 8.00 a.m., to 12.00 noon. From 2.00 pm, to 5.00 am, they were to be given appropriate skills so that by the time their period there lapsed, they would be qualified in some skills. That is how it was supposed to be but it was messed up. This House also messed up, they were punishing those youths by reducing their budget. We are punishing the wrong people; the youths who are supposed to be benefiting from that budget because of the mistakes of a few people. We are now punishing the entire youth of this country. So, I want to urge this House that when we shall be doing our Supplementary Estimates, we replenish those funds and add some more to the youth. Under the Management of Dr. Owino, we will move miles. By the time we discuss the Budget next year, we will have received information that Dr. Owino has changed and adopted appropriate management of the youth of this country and I am sure he will achieve that, especially while working with the Cabinet Secretary, Prof. Kobia who is very smart. We would like thank the Government for the appointment of Dr. Owino. In the southern region of the country, we do not normally get these things. So, we thank the Government for proposing him to take that position."
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