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    "content": "should be facilitated to go through higher education. The current problem of unemployment in this country is crowding the lower group that has finished Form Four. We have many Form Four products with a mean grade of B who are cleaners and are looking for small jobs because they are unable to access higher education. If these youth are facilitated to take up degree courses as long as they have a mean grade of C+ and above, we will be talking about an education society. We will also be talking about a society that can move out of this country and be employed in another country. We know that the Southern Africa region has been looking for employees from Kenya, because our human resource development is of very high quality. We have even primary school teachers teaching in the region, but we must enable them to get those certificates before they go. Coming to the expansion from sponsoring university students to colleges, again I would like to thank the mover of the motion, because we have a cadre of youth who we would have exported as human resource. If we cannot export gold, let us export human resource from this country, because our training institutions are excellent. We have had an exodus of nurses and medical practitioners out of this country, to the extent that sometimes, we have a shortage in the country. If only we facilitated the training of these nurses and, medical officers, we should be able to export them as human resource to the countries that are in need. Africa still requires them, the US and the UK requires our nurses, why do we not raise them? The only way we can raise them is to implement what this Motion is seeking; that we should actually expand the ability of HELB to cover these middle level colleges and allow our youth to work anywhere in the globe. If we are able to train nurses to fill the capacity in the US and the UK as they demand, I think we would be a better society. We know there is good repatriation of funding back, Currently, the only repatriated funds in Kenya are dominantly from athletes. Those are not the only people who can capture these funds from outside. Our own human resource can capture the same money if not more. I know for a fact that almost every university in South Africa has a Kenyan professor, I know for a fact that in Namibia, we have nurses from Kenya. If we can train these people, we know the funding will come back. I know the only problem that we are having currently is the way the HELB can track down the beneficiaries and get their money back. That is a system issue and we would like to challenge the Ministry to ensure that the HELB has a system that can capture every individual that has received the funding so that it can revolve and we can be able to take care of our people. I strongly support this Motion and I believe if we all support it, we should be able to move our youth from the level that they are in, of unemployment to a better level of being skilled and sourcing for jobs not only nationally but also outside this country, because there are jobs out there. The East African Community (EAC) has opened up and there is going to be movement of persons. We would be able to have our youth employed in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi. We need to prepare ourselves, we need to build the human resource that will be able to look for opportunities outside, but if we stay the way we are doing, our unemployed youth will be unemployed and unskilled. If you have youth who are not skilled and are not employed, then you have a worse problem, than if you had a skilled lot who are not employed because they can be able to look for jobs elsewhere. I urge the Ministry to move with speed to revolve itself and transform itself to be a provider of the right of education."
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