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    "id": 1121758,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tharaka, DP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. George Gitonga",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "George Gitonga Murugara",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support the proposed amendment. I have carefully gone through the draft Bill. Hon. Gideon Keter is seeking to streamline the requirements when it comes to the process of getting employment. Notably, the job seekers are young persons who possibly do not have income, as most of them maybe from low backgrounds where income is a problem. The net effect is that as they go to do the interviews, they are required to carry multitudes of clearance certificates for which huge payments have been made to the Government so that they could obtain the said certificates. The problem we have in the country is multitudes of taxation. Everybody, including one who is not employed, is paying taxes. The monies we pay towards clearance certificates are forms of taxation so that the Government can raise revenue. I think this is the wrong way of raising revenue and, in my view, the process that have been proposed here is what is acceptable to the country for the good of the people. One, those who go for interviews need not carry any clearance certificate where payment is required. It means you simply carry documents that you got from inception, including school leaving certificates, birth certificates and other simple documents as such. However, because of track record especially as societies change, when an employer intends to offer a contract of employment to an employee, it now becomes important to conduct background checks. This is also where those certificates that require payment are now to be produced; and because employment is being offered and there are many ways of obtaining these, including advancing the money to the intended employees, the employees can then produce the certificates to show that they have good conduct, that they have not been corrupt, they have not failed to pay their loans or failed to comply with any other statutory requirement. That is what would be a good law. I, therefore, support the proposed amendment. 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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