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    "id": 1003745,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1003745/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherargei",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13217,
        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "If you remember, and it is on the HANSARD, the Committee on Labour and Social Welfare, which I am a Member, tabled a report last year. We had a discussion with the National Police Service (NPS) and the DCI among other agencies that the Kshs1,000 being paid by many young people to get certificates of good conduct should be budgeted for or waived. Madam Deputy Speaker, most of the young people, when looking for jobs, do not have even Kshs100 or Kshs200 to go for interviews and job hunting or join “Kenya tarmacking network”. It was very important that we agreed on some of these payments, be it the certificates of good conduct, driving license renewal fees, and acquiring of all those documents. We had tabled that report late last year. Most of these people you are asking certificates of good conduct from are drivers. These are young men who have just been in driving schools. They do not even have Kshs10,000 to pay for driving courses. They need that driving license and that Kshs1000 for certificate of good conduct. As the Senate, we must provide leadership, noting that over 50 per cent to 60 per cent of the membership of this Senate is the interest group of the young people and women. We must stand with the young people on this. We must look for a way. Madam Deputy Speaker, I do not know whether Sen. (Eng.) Mahamud is still the Chairperson of the Committee on Finance and Budget. I implore him to look into this issue, so that we can at least waive this Kshs1,000. Even as we reconstitute the Committee, I know that any Senator is capable of being the Chairperson of the Committee on Budget and Finance. It should look into this issue of waiving that Kshs1,000. You can imagine that one of the young people, maybe from Uasin Gishu County, who does not have that Kshs1,000 to go for an interview at Rivatex East Africa Ltd. Let us do something to ensure that we come up with pragmatic solutions to this issue once and for all. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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