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    "id": 1106344,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mogotio, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Daniel Tuitoek",
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        "legal_name": "Daniel Kamuren Tuitoek",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this Amendment Bill and congratulate Hon. Keter for bringing it to the House in a timely manner. Speaking the truth, the youth are under siege. Currently, there are so many youths with no jobs. Most of them have finished high schools and universities and are not seeing job opportunities. When employers start asking for many documents as they seek to provide jobs, they make the lives of jobs seekers harder. Their lives are already hard because they are not employed. Therefore, this amendment Bill has come at the right time. Demanding excessive documentation from the youth should be done away with. The idea of asking for clearance certificates from KRA, DCI, EACC, CRB and HELB should be done away with for the youth. The idea of asking them to pay interest on some of the loans they receive from various agencies should also be considered. I agree with the Hon. Member from Emurua Dikirr that we should not further burden the youth by asking them to pay interest yet we are currently not giving them employment. We have agencies like the Uwezo Fund, the Youth Enterprise Development Fund and the Women Enterprise Fund. That is where we need to make things easier for them. Those three agencies are a way of empowering the youth to make their businesses grow and have a decent way of life. Therefore, we should be increasing money to those agencies. The Uwezo Fund has a small pool of money which is accessible to the youth. The Youth Enterprise Development Fund, which has a bigger vote, should be accessible in every constituency. We keep hearing about the bottom-up economic approach. If the idea is to invest in the constituencies so that they help the youth, mama mboga and such people, we should embrace such ideas. We want to invest in our constituencies. The much that the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF) has done in Kenya is great. We all see how it has transformed the education sector, especially primary schools and the security sector, such as chief’s offices. The NG-CDF has made an impact. If we can come up with another fund which is specifically targeted towards increasing funding to the youth at the constituency level, we will go a long way in empowering them. Therefore, this amendment Bill has come at the right time. Because I want other Members to also contribute, I beg to support. Thank you. There is a point of order from the Member for Gilgil, Hon. Wangari."
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