Owen Yaa Baya

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 391 to 400 of 715.

• 26 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: There is one thing that we must look at when we follow and try to pursue a law like this. Any time you hear the youth trying to create space for themselves through affirmative action and Bills in the same way as the women, then you realise that there must be something wrong with the management of resources within the country. If this country’s economy is growing, the youth cannot look for special positions using an Act of Parliament. They would be moving in the current of the nation. If Hon. Gideon Keter has brought a law such as this ... view
• 26 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, when a country functions very well and everything is constant and moving as it is supposed to be, the youth would not seek opportunities through affirmative action. What do the youth want? They want jobs, good education, opportunities in business and many opportunities to make their lives prosper. When it comes to a level like this when the youth say that they need to amend this Act, it tells you that there is something wrong within the system of Government. That is why the youth cannot prosper on their own. Opportunities must be created for them ... view
• 26 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: At Independence, we had people in this country like Hon. Tom Joseph Mboya who, as a young person, shook the pillars of this country. Everybody knew him. He was barely 26 years but the country listened to him. We had Hon. Kenneth Matiba who was the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education when he was 29 years old. I know that we are quoting Prime Ministers of other countries who are young. However, look at this country. There are people in this country who succeeded to push the economic agenda of this country when they were very young. They ... view
• 26 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: I support this Bill. It should go through. However, there are certain things that this country needs to re-engineer to give every person an equal opportunity to achieve his or her dreams. Young people succeed in business worldwide today. Young people succeed in business even in this country. What do we need to do to ensure that a young person can get a loan without being asked for a title deed in the business world? What do we need to do to ensure that he can access credit without being told to give collateral or access employment without 10 years’ ... view
• 26 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: looking for opportunities to develop and be economically empowered. When there is no level playing field in the country, then we come to a situation like this. view
• 26 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: 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 ... view
• 26 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: We are then giving seven of the positions to Permanent Secretaries and Cabinet Secretaries to appoint the youth directly. So, you end up having more people appointed and only eight elected, you will not achieve what you intend to achieve in this Bill. You will actually deeply politicise it because those people who have been appointed will come with instructions from the appointing authorities. view
• 26 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, all members of the NYC should be elected in the format that democracy allows people to be elected through universal suffrage. That is why we create competition. We are able to sieve and get good leaders that will be like Hon. Cecily Mbarire here who said that she went through all those stages of elections. Student leaders at universities go through an election process. view
• 26 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: I want to appreciate what Hon. Oluoch talked about that we are introducing a method of appointing leaders within universities that will kill budding leadership. This is because a few cronies will be appointed by the administration instead of a properly democratic elections process within the universities. view
• 26 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: This is a very good Bill but we also need to look at the other Acts that talk about youth in this country and put them into one Bill so that they do not continue to contradict the spirit in which this National Youth Council Bill is pedestaled on. I want to say one last thing: on the culture of hard work and commitment, when we continue to bring in the issues of affirmative action into the youth issues, we are actually killing it. When I know I will be appointed or nominated, yes, it is a good training ground ... view