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    "id": 866469,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/866469/?format=api",
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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": "I am also apprehensive where the Bill ousts some provisions in the Bill of Rights. These are some of the freedoms that are accorded to an ordinary individual. Reading through, the provisions stated limit the freedom associated with servicemen and we are literally creating a military group. It would have been much easier to state categorically that we are creating a military group, a third or fourth arm of the armed forces instead of trying to conceal behind creating a service yet we are actually creating a law that creates a military group. Most of the things hosted here are akin to what is in the armed forces. For example, they are not allowed to picket. They are not allowed to present public petitions or demand their dues when they are not paid as has been the case in the past. While I support the Bill, because it is important to engage our youths, we need to be very categorical about which category of youths we are targeting. Are they Form Four leavers? It seems like we are creating a reservist group, either for the KDF or the Kenya National Police Service. If that is the case, all the recruits from the NYS, under the new constitutional dispensation, should have a minimum qualification that can allow them to transit to the next level. Training youths to such high skills of military combat and you do not engage them will be creating a security disaster in this environment."
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