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    "id": 1192679,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Moiben, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Phylis Bartoo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to second this Motion by Hon. John Kiarie. This Motion is very timely when the NG-CDF is at stake. The Fund is under threat from very interesting quarters. The intention of the Fund was to bring about the socio-economic development of constituencies in Kenya and to correct the imbalances which had been there. It has been doing a good job. As much as we know that the NG-CDF will remain, it is high time that we expanded its mandate so that it can capture other issues which support development in our constituencies. The NG-CDF has helped with school infrastructure, security and many other things. For the past one week and this week, Members have debated on the successes of the Fund. Our artisans are not supported by the Fund. That is why we need to get a small percentage of the NG-CDF “cake” to support innovators. There are those who have gone through the Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVETs). I am sure that there is a technical college in almost every county or constituency. For example, in Moiben Constituency, we have Koshin Technical Training Institute and Moiben Technical and Vocational College which have been churning out many trainees. Unfortunately, once they are out there, they have excellent skills and good innovations, but they need to be supported. Their hands have to be held. We are looking at a country where there is a lot of unemployment. We need to industrialise this country so that we can reduce the burden of unemployment. In support of that, how then do we fast-track this process so that we clear the issue of unemployment? Those artisans belong to the informal sector; and we know that the informal sector supports our economy in a big way. All along, we have concentrated on taking people to the higher institutions of learning at the expense of those who graduate from technical colleges. The informal sector is an industry that almost survived the COVID-19 season in as much as they struggled. They, however, managed to come out of it. We need to look at this industry and support it. I am sure all of us encountered young people during our campaign period displaying their wares, trying to get the attention of politicians, hoping that we could support them in one 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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