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    "id": 1104244,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Dennitah Ghati",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Jacquiline Adhiambo Oduol",
        "slug": "jacqueline-adhiambo-oduol"
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    "content": "many documentations such as tax compliance certificate from the KRA, certificate of good conduct from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations, and clearance certificate from HELB, yet these graduates have not even cleared school fees from universities, it becomes very difficult for them to get jobs. The intention of this Bill, which is a progressive Bill, is to protect majority of our graduates and young people who roam our streets in search of employment. I congratulate Hon. Keter because the Bill is seeking to cut costs. We have to reduce the cost that the young people incur before they are given a job offer. We have to consider the youth of this country with disabilities who graduate from universities and have to come all the way to Times Tower and Anniversary Towers for KRA and HELB services respectively. They come all the way from the Isibania border or from Turkana to get these documents yet they are not even guaranteed of the jobs they are toiling to get certificates for. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we need to prepare our young people. Every university must prepare their students with all this information while at university as they seek to graduate and leave. That is when young people will understand what it means to be out there and look for employment. Of what use is a degree when it cannot put food on your table? It is high time we coached and mentored our young people towards the courses they take in university. When young people leave university, get into the streets and get into the hassle of looking for a job and applying, they will have spent all their savings to go to HELB, KRA, DCI, and everywhere to look for the documentation before they even get the jobs. They are not guaranteed of employment. I am happy this House is giving a new lease of life to our fresh graduates from universities by amending or bringing this Bill to the House. In various organisations or employers, as stated in this Bill, young people seeking employment should be employed first and even get at least three months before they get the documents. At least, they will save money and ensure that they have the job first before they go back to their institutions of learning or universities to look for these documents. How can we make it easier and lessen the hassle that our youths encounter? I come from the county of Migori, right from Rongo Constituency, at the border of Kisii and Migori to Isibania border, and every time I am in the county, I see a huge number of young people roaming our streets looking for employment. When you tell a fresh graduate from university that they have to go and look for these documents for them to apply for jobs, they completely give up. This is the job our Huduma Centres in our counties must do apart from universities that prepare our young people to get into formal employment. We have to ensure that even our institutions of higher learning do not only focus on formal jobs or employment. How can we strengthen our informal sector, so that Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institutions and our other institutions can enhance the capacities of our young people to get employment? Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for those reasons, this is a progressive Bill. It speaks for the youth of this country. It talks about employment. That is why, at the Committee stage, I will bring amendments to ensure that the youth with disabilities, who also want to get employment, are taken into consideration. Allow me to thank the Member and support the Employment (Amendment) Bill by Hon. Gideon Keter. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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