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"content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, until the private sector grows in a substantial number to be able to absorb these people, we will still continue to have this problem. It is important for hon. Members to understand that it does not pay to go and stand on a platform and say that the youths are unemployed. It is true that they are unemployed because the state of the economy cannot absorb all of them. The economy must grow at the rate of 10 per cent and above to be able to create more jobs. That is what the Government is trying to do. I would like to say that the disagreement in the Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs is not responsible for the unemployment of the youth. The disagreement is between the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and the Board of Management. That is an administrative issue. Allegations were made that there was misappropriation of funds and the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission (KACC) was sent there to carry out investigations which it did. We also sent the Efficiency Monitoring Unit (EMU) to carry out investigations and the reports are available for anybody to read. Those reports say that there was no misappropriation. Therefore the Minister had no reason to deny the re- engagement of the director. That is an administrative issue and has nothing to do with the unemployment of the youth. Mr. Speaker, Sir, Mr. Baiya has said that there was an omission of KKV Programme in the Budget and that has caused a delay in the resumption of that programme right now. However, as I said last week, that problem has now been ironed out and funds have been resourced and made available to the line Ministries for the implementation of KKV Programme. The reforms in the public expenditure are on-going, and hon. Members will agree with us that this year's Budget has tried to deal with the issue of disparity in terms of allocation of resources countrywide by coming up with what we call âa constituency-based Budgetâ."
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