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    "id": 1106333,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1106333/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Igembe Central, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kubai Iringo",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 1574,
        "legal_name": "Cyprian Kubai Iringo",
        "slug": "cyprian-kubai-iringo"
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    "content": "In this country we have many youths who can do other things without seeking employment or white-collar jobs. We need to have electricity in our rural areas. If you go to the rural areas and especially my constituency, we only have 30 per cent electricity connection. Therefore, even if a young person wants to open a barber shop or salon to do hairdressing or a carwash, they cannot because there is no power. If you go to the Rural Electrification and Renewable Energy Corporation (REREC) asking for a line from point A to B, it takes three to four years. If you go to Kenya Power to get a meter to be fixed in your premises so as to start a job, it takes four to five years. We have cases in my constituency where transformers were put in place seven years ago but have never produced any light to serve anybody. I do not know where we went wrong, we have misplaced our priorities and that is why we cannot create jobs for our people. If we had electricity across the country, everybody would be employed and having something to do. People could be having hatcheries and incubating chicken and getting money from that business. Therefore, we should focus on how to reduce the volume of unemployed people in our streets because if we do not this will be a time bomb. We are going to the election period and each and every person going for an elective position will be followed by a battalion of youths. They will be coming for handouts because they need something to keep them going. Therefore, in the process when the youths follow politicians that is where hooliganism starts and we get problems like arson, vandalism and political violence. These are created because everybody is running to the politicians for little handouts since they have nothing else to do. If these youths had jobs and work, they would not be running around after politicians but concentrating in their jobs. We need to support the Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVETs) institutes which offer vocational training so that the youths can be self-employed instead of looking for jobs in parastatals or other places. More so, they are able to sustain themselves without going to other people. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, because my time is gone, I support this Bill and I know it will go a long way in solving this serious problem. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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