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    "id": 1106249,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
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        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": "The sure way to help the youth is to commit things to policy and laws and not the empty sloganeering that we hear in political rallies. The youth are being incited they will be given money. We should tell them to apply for the Kenya Youth Empowerment and Opportunities Programme (KYEOP), which is now at cycle 7D for youth between 18 and 29 years who never passed through O level of education. They are entitled. Once they compete, they could access up to Kshs40,000 of Government grants plus training. You still hear the youth saying they do not want that. They want to wait for some futuristic promises that they have been given, that they will be given Kshs100,000 to start businesses. Until that money has been appropriated by this House and we have the legal framework to operationalise it, we know it is just an empty promise. Get the funding available. We are confusing our youth through the messaging by politicians who want to make political capital by misleading the youth, saying the reason they do not have jobs is because of what the Government is doing or not doing. There is a lot of money available for the youth. Going back to Hon. Keter, thank you very much for this Bill. I hope Members will support it. It is a good Bill. The youth of this country will see that this House is conscious to their issues. Indeed, these are the same things that the youth told BBI promoters and the BBI steering committee. They said they would want some of these burdens to be removed. It also goes in tandem with what President Uhuru has been committed to in terms of reducing the cost of doing business. Reducing the cost of doing business is not necessarily restricted to companies. The cost of doing business should also be extended to individuals. All this is quite in tandem with what is happening, but because of the noise that we hear over the weekends by people who are in Government, but do not want to accept that fact and want to rubbish what the Government is doing, it ends up crowding out all the good things that are being done. People are left to imagine, as Hon. Sankok says, that the Government is on autopilot. The Government cannot work on autopilot. Every decision that is made is thought through by people. Do not forget that we are part of that Government. Parliament is part of the Government. So, when Hon. Sankok wants to mislead people and say that the The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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