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    "id": 866422,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/866422/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Homa Bay CWR, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Gladys Wanga",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Gladys Atieno Nyasuna",
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    "content": "We are also looking at the council and we hope with its creation, there will be close monitoring of the functioning of the NYS. One of the key things provided in this Bill as well is the commercialisation of the NYS. If you look at Clause 8 of the Bill, it says that the NYS is allowed to receive funds and invest any surplus or profit for performance of its functions. We are looking at the commercialisation of the NYS. The council has a very daunting task to see that none of the resources from this commercialisation go to waste. We look forward to seeing the NYS in the next five or 10 years well financed, so that our youth who join the NYS can finance themselves and their stay there. They should fund themselves. One of the issues that was discovered was that the NYS has large tracks of land which is just lying fallow and maybe will even be grabbed. A key issue is to look at how these farms can be tilled and money raised from them. There is labour available from our young people to enable them to grow their own food. You saw how air was supplied in the pretext of beans, maize and rice; foods that can be grown by the young people so that they can feed themselves. The council has a very daunting task to see how the money they raise enables them to reduce the amount of funds the Exchequer gives the NYS every year. In future, we should not fund them from the Exchequer and we should put this money into other use."
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