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    "id": 1106351,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1106351/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kabuchai, FORD-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Majimbo Kalasinga",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 1641,
        "legal_name": "James Lusweti Mukwe",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. The major reason this Bill is with us and why I am thankful so much is that it is addressing the roadblocks at the initial stages of employment of these youths. There are four serious roadblocks. One is experience which is a requirement and a serious one to our fresh college and university graduates. If it were even possible we would have made all tertiary education years in college years of experience. If it is three years in a medical college, be given three years of experience to start off. If we look at this one serious roadblock called experience, no youth will get a job because they are fresh from colleges and they have had no place to get experience. Secondly, the idea of CRB is serious and it is affecting a majority of young and trained graduates who are supposed to join the job market. One, even if this student or somebody who is looking for a job gets money to clear the debts, it takes a lot of time for the CRB to clear this person. It can take even two or three weeks and the time of this one looking for a job gets expired. The issue of a Certificate of Good Conduct is so painful to us and so painful to these young men. If Kenya as a country has this body that issues Certificates of Good Conduct, every citizen of this country who has no criminal record must be having that certificate. So, it should not be a must that one produces the certificate. It is supposed to be on soft system so that everybody who has a problem is the only one who gets a certificate of no good conduct. Anybody or any employer, at any time, can click your name or the name of the applicant and find that he is good on Certificate of Good Conduct, not necessarily producing the certificate itself. Finally, as Mheshimiwa for Emurua Dikirr has just said, we have students who are in this country and they are living with disabilities. They must be given free training and supported by Government because, one, they are disabled. If you look at this, I have a national school in my constituency called Nalondo CBM. This school produces the best but now, we have serious challenges. One, they cannot walk and two, they need free medication in this institution. If I look at this, I support this Amendment Bill because it is very important for our youths."
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