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    "id": 114502,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/114502/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Nyammo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 117,
        "legal_name": "Francis Thombe Nyammo",
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    "content": "buy farms to settle the IDPs? Why should we continue to make them paupers? Their children do not have an opportunity to acquire the education that they are entitled to. The other issue is with regard to our youth. We have, as we know, a very young population. About 60 per cent of our population is composed of the youth. What are we doing to make them feel that they belong to this country? I know we had the Youth Enterprise Fund (YEF). A fund which, probably could have been managed better than it was. We had the Kazi kwa Vijana programme. Where I come from, it is known as KaziKwa Vijana programme lakini pesa kwa wazee. This was a misdirection of efforts because of mismanagement. If the Kazi Kwa Vijana programme comes back, I implore those who are managing it to engage better management systems. However, the more worrying aspect of our youth is the type of education that we give them. This country, and I have said before, appears to believe in numbers. That the more we produce, the more successful we are. Nothing could be further from the truth. Our education system gives very few skills to our young men and women. We have an emphasis on: Do well in your primary, secondary and in university, and you will be employed. Who will employ them? Every year, many students graduate from our institutions of higher learning. How many of those graduates end up in self employment? Very few! We have a disconnect between what we churn out from the institutions of higher learning and what is employable. This is a time bomb that needs to be corrected as soon as possible. By the time a typical Kenyan family takes a student or two through university, they will have sold everything and, at the same time, the student is encouraged to borrow from the Higher Education Loans Board (HELB). After selling everything and the student being encouraged to borrow from the HELB, they end up unemployed. This is a total destruction of the Kenyan families. Somebody must put these things right. We must give, not just knowledge to students in our institutions of higher learning, but also skills and the right attitude. We must stop emphasizing on the fact that the students will get employed. We should start thinking in terms of self employment and entrepreneurship. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, there is dignity in self employment and entrepreneurship. Let us not continue allowing our children to live the lie that when they do well in examinations, they will be employed. If we have an economy that is not growing as fast as it should, where will the employment opportunities come from? It is time for this country to sit back and ask a major question---"
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