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    "id": 978128,
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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": "BBI, they are saying that this BBI is going to help the future. The future is youth because 75 per cent of our population is youth. If you are discussing posterity, you are discussing a system that is going to put us on a path to growth and there is no young person represented in that panel. How are you going to do that? We cannot have 80-year-olds deciding for 22-year-olds. You only have to ensure that those people are mainstreamed in those structures. You cannot dance to reggae and hope that it is going to help them get jobs. You cannot hope to dance to reggae and hope that it is going to help get opportunities for those young people in colleges. You must allow and enable them to be part of that process to work. Hon. Deputy Speaker, engaging young people in productive endeavours is the best thing that this country can do. So, organising from the village level, through the ward level, sub-county level and county level is the best thing you can do for the young people to participate in those things. As this is done, I also want to implore upon political parties in this country because they are now bodies of the law and organs of governance, that we should have strong youth leagues and structures that mirror this youth council so that we are able to bring more young people, mentor them and nurture them. This will put them in good stead to help them grow up as responsible citizens who look up to the country and the country looks up to them to enable us move in one accord. I would not want to say much. I want to thank Hon. Gideon Keter for this, and deservedly second this Bill."
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