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    "id": 1106263,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Chepalungu, CCM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gideon Koske",
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        "legal_name": "Gideon Kimutai Koske",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. From the outset, I want to support this amendment Bill because it targets the majority of youths in this country. I fall in the category of youths in this country and recent research shows that the youth in Kenya are experiencing higher rates of unemployment than the rest of the Kenyan population. According to a recent survey done in 2020, total unemployment, excluding those involved in small-scale farming and pastoralists, is estimated to have increased from 17.3 million to 18.1 million. There are outrageous requirements that are normally made mandatory by employers. For instance, the Kenya Revenue Authority clearance. How do you tell someone who has never filed any returns anywhere because there are no turnovers at all to file returns to get clearance from KRA? This is someone who has never engaged in any meaningful business! Secondly, how do you ask someone who has never borrowed any loan anywhere to bring a CRB clearance? Unless you are seeking clearance from Safaricom for fuliza, which is accessible to all . In the case of other lending bodies, because of the requirements sought, so that an individual can get a loan... It is important that we do not make these bodies that are mandatory for clearance a way of the Government to generate revenue by charging Kshs2,200 and Kshs1,050 for the Certificate of Good Conduct. As a Government, we should make all these services free so that everyone can hustle anywhere in Kenya to get jobs. As it is now, unemployment in Kenya is one of the pandemics. I call it a pandemic because the next general election in 2022 will bring a revolution in the sense that most Kenyans will decide on their future not determined by the tribes that we are engaged in or regions we come from. Kenyans will decide the next election based on what will be coming to their tables. The levels of education or the careers we have chosen will not matter because the election will be determined by what belongs to each Kenyan. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, this will be very critical for most of us because with the few jobs in the Government, the question we have in Kenya is: “Who sent you or who do you know?” In other countries, the question that comes to all people who are eligible whenever there are job opportunities is: “What do you have in terms of credentials?” In Kenya, it is the opposite. 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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