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    "id": 1253497,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1253497/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "The investment in our TVET institutions will power the housing agenda we are about to introduce as per the Finance Bill. Last week, I heard a very senior Member of this House, with whom we have been in this House for three terms, tell his constituents that building houses cannot create jobs. He led a chorus asking how houses will create jobs for lawyers like Hon. Kaluma. Hon. Kaluma knows that lawyers get jobs in housing through conveyancing. He was asking how engineers would get jobs through housing. Engineers like Kiragu here will tell you that civil engineers, mechanical engineers and electrical engineers in plumbing and installation of lifts will all access job opportunities. I am glad we converge with my brother, the Member for Mathare, on this issue on TVET. I can see the Member for Homa Bay Town is also itching to contribute. It is because it is such an important agenda for our young people. Even as we begin the debate on the Finance Bill, I hope and pray we will appreciate that the Votes we are supplying money to today must be financed through the Finance Bill. It is by raising money from the people of Kenya through taxation. I, therefore, invite the Hon. Member for Mathare to be very active tomorrow and the day after, during the Finance Bill debate, to contribute and ensure that we not only supply money to these Votes, but also raise that money to change the lives of the people of Kikuyu, Mathare and the young men and women of our country."
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