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    "id": 866463,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Wilberforce Oundo",
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        "legal_name": "Wilberforce Ojiambo Oundo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to make my contribution in respect to the National Youth Service Bill 2018. To say that this Bill is timely is to underestimate the challenge the NYS has gone through in the last few years. I want to draw the attention of the House and the general public to the fact that the NYS was truly NYS during the days when it was under the commandership of Dr. Geoffrey William Griffin, the founder and the Director of Starehe Boys Centre and School. I look back with nostalgia to when he would go to the NYS in the morning and come back to school in the afternoon in green uniform. We would marvel at it and feel safe that we had somebody who has a disciplined background and could take care of us; the boys from disadvantaged families who got the opportunity to go to the Starehe Boys Centre. One thing I regret in my life is that prior to 1990s, it was compulsory for all those who were to join university to go through the NYS for about three months. Unfortunately, through structural changes brought by World Bank and other multi donors, that programme was scrapped and I missed it when I was eligible to join university two years after it had been scrapped. I felt so sad, but when we went to the university, luckily enough, we had some who had gone through the programme and gave us wonderful stories. They trained us to do combats during riots and for that, I am greatly indebted to their training."
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