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    "id": 1007380,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1007380/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ndaragwa, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jeremiah Kioni",
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        "legal_name": "Jeremiah Ngayu Kioni",
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    "content": "procedure. Hon. Nduati alluded to this, though I do not agree with many of the other statements that he made, including the argument that our young people should not go to TVET. He was really a prophet of doom this afternoon. We cannot come to Bunge and we all conspire to pass laws that are against our people. We come to represent the people. I do not think quite a bit of what he said is accurate. In Ndaragwa, the youth are keen to join TVET. We are actually waiting for it to be opened. We have huge numbers of young people who want to join TVET. I want to encourage the young people all over the country: you may not get employed tomorrow, but you will get a certificate, a degree or a diploma. Go for it. When employment opportunities come, they will never be given to those who refused to go to those TVETs. You will always be there trying. Back to this issue, NG-CDF seems to have come up with a solution to many of the problems that we have in this country. And we continue to commend the Board. Even as we go through the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) process, any person with an idea or a dream of doing away with NG-CDF is really doing away with one of the most efficient ways of using public money. We will need to make sure that the fund is protected. Even if it is not run by Members of Parliament, it is a model that must be allowed to go on in this country. The Ksh100 million that we are given is a conditional grant; we are given that money to use for specific projects. How I wish that we could use the same model when we allocate money to the county governments. We would certainly see changes in our system. Finally, it is important that as Members of Parliament we continue biting the bullet. We refused to come up with a law on lifestyle audit. The courts came up with it. They are now auditing us by force. We will need to come up with a law that helps us in lifestyle audits. We watered down the Leadership and Integrity Act. We need to work on it so that we help our country in fighting corruption. We need to bite the bullet as Members of Parliament, like this Committee has done. I support and thank them."
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