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    "id": 978122,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/978122/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ugenya, MDG",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Ochieng’",
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        "legal_name": "David Ouma Ochieng'",
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    "content": "This Bill, in a nutshell, is saying that we have got a National Youth Council1 that has not been operationalised for the last eight years. Why so? Because we left a very important role for constituting the Council to a Cabinet Secretary. It says at Clause 5(g) that eight members of the Youth Council are to be elected through a system to be prescribed by the Cabinet Secretary. It is discretionary, carte blanche, and a blank cheque. No one knows what the Cabinet Secretary is supposed to do to make this work. So, what Hon. Keter is proposing this morning is to ensure we have a competitive process through which those young people get into the Youth Council. This is the modus operandi we have adopted in this House for the last four years for appointing board members of parastatals and authorities. Let us have a process that is transparent, competitive and participatory. Hon. Gideon is saying that we will have nine members of the National Youth Council being nominated through a competitive process by the Cabinet Secretary responsible for youth affairs. Competitive here means this could be advertised. There could be a panel of selection like we do with the commissions. There could be a way in which you advertise in the papers and people bring applications and we have a panel that looks at this and provides for how to get a broad spectrum of membership across the country."
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