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    "speaker_name": "Mathare, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Anthony Oluoch",
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    "content": "access these monies because the people who borrowed in the last regime when I was not a Member of Parliament, have not returned it. What am I supposed to do? The second condition is, you must have a certificate of good conduct, KRA clearance, and so on. I agree with Hon. Khamisi who said that the youth who benefit are those who want to be entrepreneurs. We can give grants to the youth in the same way that we do with the NG-CDF. The NG-CDF is the best- managed fund. Its benefits are tangible. We can do the same for youth programmes that are cascaded to the constituency level. My challenge to Keter is that as you create structures and align them to the new Constitution and increase representation, please, consider creating a fund, cascading it to the constituency level and having those funds managed by the constituency branch of the NYC at the constituency level. This is in line with the principle of devolution. Under Article 10(2), devolution is now a principle and value of governance also captured under Article 174 of the Constitution. We cannot concentrate and focus at the centre instead of going down. I encourage you to bring up amendments so that instead of static leadership at the national level, similar structures should be replicated at the constituency level. The objectives, powers and functions of the NYC at the national level should be to supervise the 290 NYC constituency committees complete with a fund that can do proper things for the young people of Kenya. I agree with Hon. Cecily Mbarire on the leadership issues in the youth agenda. There are those who were in student leadership. I was a student leader when I was doing my first degree at Kenyatta University. There are those who look back on the glory days of student leadership. That was the preparatory ground where we developed national leaders. Look at what the Education Act has done in respect to our university students. I was hoping that Babu Owino would have spoken to that issue because he brought an amendment. At a time when we have a right to universal suffrage under the Constitution, namely, one man one vote, why would the Ministry of Education decide that they can micromanage by way of whatever system they call it - Musimba might know – to elect cronies and people who are close to the administration and, therefore, rob us of very robust leaders who would be our ministers, prime ministers, Members of Parliament and presidents in the next dispensation? Hon. Keter, please also look at the Education Act and work together with Babu Owino so that we remove that draconian provision that requires that universities come up with some funny delegates system that circumscribes how we elect our university students. Otherwise, I support the Bill but a lot of work needs to be done. Lastly, there is the issue of legislation. There are so many pieces of littered legislation such as the National Youth Council Act and the National Employment Authority Act. I do not know which others are there. I had proposed in my Bill which was killed by the Public Accounts Committee that we have one big Bill that deals with the youth and put everything inside it."
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