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    "id": 1096147,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1096147/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Gatanga, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Joseph Nduati",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13338,
        "legal_name": "Joseph Nduati Ngugi",
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    "content": "I really want to encourage our youths that not all of us can go to university. This Government has done a lot. We have built the Technical, Industrial, Vocational and Entrepreneurship Training (TIVET) colleges and youth polytechnics. I would like to encourage our youths to join those polytechnics in their local areas and become that carpenter, plumber and electrician we are lacking in this nation, I can assure them that even with that local training, they can grow to be big persons. I used to be a consultant before I transformed myself into a contractor. What motivated me is that, as a young consultant, I would see young people who had left our local polytechnics with just some basic skills in a certificate course coming and would start with a job of Kshs100,000. The next day they would grow to Kshs1 million. Another time they would be doing work worth Kshs50 million and another time you would give them work worth Kshs100 million. With the little money I was getting as a consultant, I decided to transform myself from being a consultant to a contractor. Those opportunities are there. From the little opportunities that are provided by the Government, I grew to be a big contractor. In 2007, from my humble beginning, I was given an award as the third-best performing contractor in Kenya. That is what I want to encourage our people. Those opportunities are there. You do not have to bribe anybody. Those jobs are availed by the Government. They are advertised. You do not need anybody to support you. Our young people must be encouraged and that idea of calling our people hustlers should end. The only thing I am disagreeing with the Bill is this idea of being paid six months after liquidation. We need to, maybe, amend that one a bit because liquidation in this country takes very long, sometimes even 10 years. If we will have to wait for 10 years to pay our people, that is quite long. A way should be found out, Hon. Dawood, so that our people can be paid quite early instead of maybe six months. With those few remarks, I support the Bill."
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