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    "id": 988308,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "The reason given for denying Mr. Ng’ang’a an opportunity to serve in the Commission is the issue of age. This is something that Mr. Ng’ang’a has no control over. He cannot make himself younger. If he does that, it will be forgery, which he will be jailed for. So, what do you expect Mr. Ng’ang’a to do with all the qualifications that he has and he has been offered an opportunity when the only viable reason is age? I know we need to provide job opportunities to the youth, but this is the wrong route to take in providing opportunities to our youth. The best way to handle the youth of this country is to create job opportunities through economic interventions. As a House, we have a responsibility to come up with suggestions, proposals, methods and a legal framework to ensure that we expand our economy to create jobs for our youth and not the easy fix of looking at commissions and throwing our youth there who are still very energetic and who should even be more productive in other areas. In that regard, it would be unfair for me to deny Mr. Ng’ang’a an opportunity. Secondly, there is the issue of this lady, Leila. As a House, we had already approved the appointment of this lady to serve in another agency of Government and then today we are saying that we have issues with her. It must be clear and definite. I am even told from the Report that she was provided an opportunity and she brought the documents later. What is wrong with that? In my view, bringing documents later is not wrong. Where I totally disagree with the Committee is on the issue of dual citizenship. I even opposed the rejection of Mwende Mwinzi because of dual citizenship. Once we have agreed as a country that we are recognising those Kenyans with dual citizenship, we need..."
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