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    "id": 1106223,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1106223/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David ole Sankok",
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        "legal_name": "David Ole Sankok",
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    "content": "spending a lot of money apart from the money they spend tarmacking or potholing - because our tarmacs are full of potholes - around the country seeking employment. They also pay the Government a lot of money when searching for jobs that are not there. The Bill seeks to remedy such expenses that are levied on our youth, so that potential employers can only request for such certificates when they are assured that a person has been shortlisted and is going for an interview and have benefitted from the employment. Currently, the youth can apply for as many as a hundred job opportunities in a year. So, if you have applied for a hundred job opportunities in a year and every job you apply for requires a Certificate of Good Conduct, a clearance certificate from the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) and a clearance certificate from HELB, you will use a total of Kshs5,000 to apply for one job. If you apply for a hundred jobs and you do not get any of them, you will have already spent almost Kshs500,000 just for job applications before you even get the job. This House must address this issue of unemployment. I can assure you that what you have heard about the bottom-up economic model, even though many people do not understand, it is the remedy for youth unemployment. The money that we have used to resuscitate Kenya Airways (KQ) will support small enterprises of mama mboga, boda boda riders and M-Pesa shops, almost one million of them. Those are a million job opportunities, and a million new tax payers. We should specifically make laws in this House that target the small and medium sized enterprises. For a long time in the trickle-down economic model, we have targeted the large corporates like KQ, Safaricom and the Kenya Power Company, so that we could protect them in law to become monopolists. While we think they will offer job opportunities, they are actually laying off employees. While we thought we could benefit from taxes paid by big corporates, they have ended up declaring nil returns! That means they do not even pay taxes. While we thought they could have corporate social responsibility (CSR), it is private entities like Equity Bank that have CSR. You will never see any CSR by KQ. Those big corporates have been open to massive corruption. They do not offer any employment opportunities. In the bottom-up economic model where you target the bottom of the pyramid, it will be very difficult for thieves like the people in the KEMSA scandal, those mentioned in the Mafya House scandal, and the COVID-19 billionaires to steal from"
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