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    "id": 1341375,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kiambaa, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Njuguna Kawanjiku",
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    "content": "the youth, PWDs and women. They are trying as much as they can to climb the ladder. They are trying to grow to make sure that they come up with companies that can benefit our country in the future. As I support Mheshimiwa Gikaria's amendment, I want to agree that our country has many unemployed people. As a House, we must develop legislation supporting job creation. As Mheshimiwa KJ had earlier stated, it is so easy to wish away the Ksh5000 or Ksh10,000 that is requested by the NCA, especially when you are from the background some of us have come from. We tried as much as possible to register companies, but tarmacked for about two years before getting any work. It is also important to propose an amendment allowing the NCA to verify the period a company has not transacted any business. There are still cases of so many young people who cannot transact for a certain period. We have the digital aspect that can verify whether a Government institution or the private sector has given a particular company any job. If they cannot raise or make money, they can be cleared, and the penalties given by the NCA waived until that group of people get some jobs. You can have money to register a company, but you still have to try to get a job after that. At that point, you cannot do things as you should. I welcome the proposal by the Member for Dagoretti South that we should anchor it into law and make sure that after some time, if you can make a profit after maybe a year or two, that money can be collected. This is because the company can now pay the kind of money that the National Construction Authority demanded. By doing so, we would have given this person a fair footing whereby he can now be self-employed before he goes ahead to employ the other young people within our country. We have so many unemployed young people. I have come up with an amendment on public procurement that seeks to protect employment for our young people. We must also put a ceiling on the value of contracts given to local and international companies. We must also cushion young people, local contractors and manufacturers from international competition. This is because some of those international companies that come to our country have easy money, probably from their mother countries, and can easily access financing and those jobs. But our local companies are not able to compete. Once a young person gets a contract, they need to pay some money to the NCA, go to the bank to get a loan and then put in a small profit margin to survive before paying the stipulated taxes by the Kenya Revenue Authority. We must also come up with a law to put a ceiling on the value of contracts to be given to international companies to protect the many able young contractors from our country. That is so that we also protect the many young, able contractors from our country. We must also grow them and create an opportunity to compete among themselves, but not with international companies. Therefore, we recommend and support this Bill. It will create many employment opportunities. If you give a young person a classroom to construct using the National Government Constituencies Fund (NG-CDF), that person will give casual workers an opportunity. He will employ masonry. A woman will be selling uji or porridge or food within that construction site. When we enable and empower women and young people, we empower a generation and this country's future. We must protect the young people by this and ensure we do not demand money from them first. Where do we expect someone who has come from the university to get Kshs30,000 to pay the National Construction Authority (NCA) for a certificate to start working? We must be reasonable as a country and ensure that we first accommodate them in the market. We can even create an authority where they can access funds. I thank the Government because it has come up with the Hustlers Fund, which gives out loans to young people who want to do farming. Even if the amount is small, they can start from somewhere. They can join hands to form a company and access funds. We need to make it more accommodating whereby even if they get a Local Purchase Order (LPO) of a certain company, those government institutions can fund them. For the first time, they should fund 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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