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    "id": 866380,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/866380/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tharaka, DP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. George Gitonga",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "George Gitonga Murugara",
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    "content": "It is also important to note that there is a provision in Clause 6(4) that we can have branches of the NYS established elsewhere in the Republic of Kenya. This excites me in that I am thinking of a branch of NYS established either in my constituency of Tharaka or in the two sub-counties of Tharaka to serve young men from the grassroots. It is very important to the cohorts that we have talked about on a very good venture that was introduced. Again, it went awry. I believe there were people who were interested not in the welfare of the youth but on the money that was allocated to the service. Cohorts have not been paid. We have been following up with the Ministry of Public Service and Youth Affairs. We have been promised that the cohorts who have not been paid will be paid before this year ends. We look forward to that happening. It is important that we remind the Ministry that that promise has been made. The cohorts are young people in constituencies who are supposed to have benefited from the monies that were allocated to the NYS as a result of the work they did but have not been paid for almost one year. We call upon Government to put in place measures to ensure the cohorts are paid forthwith and more measures, especially when we pass this Bill, are put in place to ensure that we have more cohorts recruited in the constituencies to serve the country."
}