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    "id": 867545,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nyatike, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Tom Odege",
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        "legal_name": "Tom Mboya Odege",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Before I support the Report, I am a bit worried after listening to a Member of the Committee. We have a list of names without any indication of the regions they come from. We are now hearing it from a Member of the Committee that regions are not balanced. My good friend, Hon. Sankok, judged the proposed members to the Commission by name and said that there was regional balance. A Member of the Committee says that regions are not balanced. Looking at the names in the Report, there is no indication of a person with disabilities or a youth. The challenge in the country today is unemployment of the youth. The leading employer in this country is the Public Service Commission. If we have a Commission with no youth representative, the youth of this country are doomed. We will not reject the Report but next time, it is important for us to ensure that this lead Government employment agency has youth representation. Eighty per cent of the people on this list - and I know some of them - are retirees. They have educated their kids, employed their kids and raised their families. They do not feel the pain of the youth. We need to go an extra mile and allow the youth to sit in most of those commissions so that they can defend their own interests. If this trend continues, the youth will continue crying while the retirees continue benefiting. I recommend that next time we need a very clear indication in the Report. If the first person is a youth, let it be indicated that he or she is a youth and where they come from so that we can see the regional balancing in the Report. I support the Report."
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