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    "id": 1106270,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kimilili, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Didmus Barasa",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Didmus Wekesa Barasa Mutua",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me an opportunity to support this very important Bill. All the agencies responsible for clearing persons for employment purposes are available in the country. If an employer wants to verify whether particular candidates paid their Higher Education Loans Board loans, he should write an email to that particular institution and the institution should reply. So, we are not saying that employers should not solicit for that information, but they should use their own means of finding out at their own cost. Employers could send emails to HELB or inquire through phone calls to establish whether a candidate is suitable for employment or not. We have had a very big problem in this country. All employers, including those in the private sector, normally develop their recruitment procedures and policies based on the many laws enacted by this this House. Government ministries and agencies must lead the way in removing the burden of looking for the various documents from the shoulders of unemployed youths looking for employment. I am saying this because even Government agencies always require applicants to produce these documents. Why would the Government ask job seeking youths to produce these documents when its own agencies are the custodians of the documents? It does not make sense for the Public Service Commission (PSC) to require candidates to produce documents like Certificate of Good Conduct when an agency of the Government of Kenya is responsible for the production of the same. The PSC should access such documents without bothering job seekers with the process of their production. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, even as we decry the many issues that exist in this country, I want to sharply differ with what the Leader of the Majority Party said that, as Parliament, we should pull in the same direction. We cannot pull in the same direction because we represent 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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