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    "id": 1106276,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "North Imenti, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Rahim Dawood",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Abdul Rahim Dawood",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. The other day, some nursing jobs were advertised in the United Kingdom. Some 3,000 vacancies were available, but we had more than 20,000 applicants for the jobs. For every one job in Kenya, we have about 4,000 applications. It becomes very difficult when we have so many people applying for jobs and at the end of the day, only one becomes successful. So, we need to see how people can get jobs as well as be self-employed. We have the Uwezo Fund, the Youth Enterprise Development Fund and the Women Enterprise Development Fund. The only problem we have is that some of these Funds are not working because of the many bottlenecks that have been put in place. We need to remove the bottlenecks, so that people can access the funds and employ themselves. Hon. Keter has indicated that any employment contract should be simple and understandable. Many times when you go to any employer, you realise that contracts are written in small letters that are hard to understand. It ties you. One should have an exit clause or notice period as well. If somebody is employed and is not satisfied, what are the ways of complaining? Is there an employment ombudsman? We need to have something, so that if someone is aggrieved, he or she can go to a place and complain about the terms of employment. Going to court is tedious in this country, even though we have a new Chief Justice, Madam Martha Koome, who is from my constituency. She has promised that cases will be concluded fast enough. Even that fast enough will take you between 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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