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    "id": 956120,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/956120/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nyando, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jared Okelo",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Jared Odoyo Okelo",
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    "content": "Therefore, something drastic must be done. Due to joblessness, we have seen increment in cases of crime. It has become a disaster in this country. Also, we have seen an increment in cases of suicide out of desperation. If we are going to treat people differently, that will be unacceptable. We have seen employers who in a bid to deter workers from enjoying leaves they fired them. In retrospect, these issues have created unwarranted deaths through suicide or frustrations by families which in return have caused divorce. Therefore, we must, as a country, while looking at our laws in line with the powers given to us by Articles 95 and 96 of the constitution, look at laws that are proactive to the Kenyan people. On a peripheral matter, we must give jobs that mirror our qualifications. I want to thank the Government. For the first time, through the Public Service Commission (PSC), they provided internship jobs to most of our jobless youth who have attained trainings. That is something that we must give the Government a pat on their backs. We all understand that 30 job opportunities per constituency are still not enough. The Government needs to do a lot more. The biggest employer anywhere in the world is the Government. Right now, we have two tiers of government, the county government and the national Government. They must work in collaboration to create jobs to the jobless Kenyans. Otherwise, joblessness is a time bomb. When it explodes, we shall have nowhere to run to or nothing as recourse. With all that contribution, I support the passage of this timely and incisive Bill."
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