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    "id": 1156616,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Makueni, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Daniel Maanzo",
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        "legal_name": "Daniel Kitonga Maanzo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. This is a very important Bill. It is one of the Bills which promotes the creation of jobs in this country. PWDs have been disadvantaged for a very long time. However, we have noted that many PWDs have abilities and can do many things. My good friend here, Hon. Sankok, is a medical doctor. Ordinarily, when you meet them, they are very determined in what they do. They want to succeed and do better than the people who are not challenged at all. This is one way of encouraging them to start companies, make a life for themselves and create jobs. There is also the issue of youth and women. By waiving those funds, it makes it easier for them to have a start-up or begin a business. Not everybody can fit in the white collar jobs. Many people have a lot of talents. I have a young man in Makueni who has a very big company, and he started it when he was very young. He does construction and he started it as a small company. He went through a lot of challenges. If he was never supported by selling the only cow they had to be able to register his company, he would not be working for county governments in different places of the Republic as he does today. That is a good example of a young person who is very talented in construction, does not have a degree, neither does he speak English very well. However, when he does a construction, it comes out very well and everybody asks who built the house. They always want him to build for them. He was able to do quite a number of NG-CDF projects as well as a number of county projects, and now he is doing national projects. This applies to women. Most Kenyans are jobless. Women are jobless. Youth are jobless. PWDs are jobless. However, when you give them an opportunity to explore the talents they have, which is what we are trying to do through this amendment, then you are going to create jobs for many people. The good thing about those construction companies is that they can also employ other people. If a company is coming from a certain village, you will find quite a number of youth from that village being engaged during the day simply because some Kshs15,000 fee was waived. They will be able to employ more and eventually, they will be able to pay taxes. For you to get those contracts, you must show your paper work that whatever you have done, you have filed tax returns. That makes the country’s’ income to grow. Therefore, it becomes easier for us to create jobs instead of promising in political podiums that we will create jobs. This is a practical way of making sure that we have created jobs across the country, and this particular authority, the National Construction Authority (NCA), has offices in every sub-county in Kenya. Meaning that it has as many offices as the constituencies around. That means that you have people in the constituencies moving towards constituency centre or headquarters to access those particular offices through other Government offices. Ordinarily, they are housed by other Government offices like Huduma centres. There is an officer of the NCA in every Huduma centre. Therefore, the young people watching this debate in Parliament today will have hope. They are going to visit the nearest Huduma Centre and will seek for a waiver. I am sure they will start their companies. That way, they will be able to exercise what they have learnt in the local polytechnics in the counties, and they will be able to do a lot of work in this time of devolution."
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