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    "id": 978234,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/978234/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kilifi North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Owen Baya",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13373,
        "legal_name": "Owen Yaa Baya",
        "slug": "owen-yaa-baya"
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    "content": "I appreciate this Bill. The Memorandum of Objects and Reasons of this Bill says that we want to depoliticise the membership of the National Youth Council. As you go through the amendments, you realise that we are deeply depoliticising it. We are giving Principal Secretaries an opportunity to appoint a lot of people there. I saw something else in this Bill. Clause 5 (1)(h) of the Bill says that the National Youth Council shall consist of not more than eight youths, of whom at least three shall be of female gender and one shall be a youth with disability, nominated by the National Youth Congress in such manner as be prescribed and appointed by the Cabinet Secretary. Why are we being specific that we want female gender instead of saying the opposite gender or the other gender? What happens when the others are female? Do we still nominate them? The other thing that you need to look at is that this Bill requires a rework. If the youth are elected in such a manner as prescribed, we are giving the method of prescribing how these youths will be elected, as Cabinet Secretaries. Again, we are taking the gains from the same line by saying that the youths will be elected but then the CS will determine the method of elections. This requires a relook."
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