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    "id": 978132,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Bura, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ali Wario",
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        "legal_name": "Ali Wario",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to respond to this Bill. The principal objective of this Bill is to amend the membership of the National Youth Council by allowing competitive requirement of the youth serving in the Council, which is intended to depoliticise the membership of the Council. The other objective is to do away with obsolete words like “Ministers, “Permanent Secretaries”, “sub-location”, and align them to the current constitutional dispensation. The Bill does not limit the rights and the fundamental freedoms in the Bill of Rights and it does not delegate legislative powers. The enactment of this Bill shall not occasion any additional expenditure of public funds. We have done public participation through an advertisement on 26th March 2019 where the Committee invited the public to present their submissions on the National Youth Council (Amendment Bill), 2019, to be received by the Committee on or before 2nd April 2019. I want to inform the House that the Committee did not receive any written submission on the Bill within the specified timeframe, but met with Hon. Gideon Keter and officers from the Ministry of Public Service, Youth and Gender Affairs on 1st April 2019. At the said meeting, the Ministry informed the Committee that it was going to undertake a comprehensive review of the Act and submitted a copy of the proposed amendment, that is, the Draft National Youth Council. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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