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    "id": 834012,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/834012/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mwala, MCCP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Vincent Musau",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Vincent Musyoka Musau",
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    "content": "Opportunities (AGPO) provides a very huge opportunity for youth in this country, but we need to ask ourselves what the problem is. There is likely to be no bigger opportunity for the youth in this country than the one created by AGPO. For a development budget of Kshs1 trillion, it means an opportunity of Kshs300 billion through tenders for the youth through AGPO, but this has faced a lot of challenges. One of the major challenges is infiltration by cartels. Rich and big people pose as youths, take advantage of the youth and secure the opportunities. As a Government, we need to assess it. We need to know how many of these opportunities meant for the youth through AGPO are actually going to them. Hon. Deputy Speaker, it is my view that one of the reasons the big tenderpreneurs are taking advantage of the opportunities for the youth is simply because a majority of the youth lack capital. It is my opinion that the establishment of a Government Local Purchase Order financing scheme will go a long way to ensure that the youth can walk into a Government office, if they have won a tender, and without necessarily having security, be given capital to finance the tender. Since these tenders are Government’s, either way, when the Government pays the youths, it will deduct the amount advanced to the youths and, probably, with some little interest. Therefore, I support, but in doing so, I do not just support the establishment of additional or creation of more funds alone. We need to create more funds, but let the opportunities created for the youth be easily audited. Let us hold ministries accountable, especially on the issue of AGPO to tell us which opportunities have been given to which youths. We need to go the extra mile to find out what went where."
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