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    "id": 1341376,
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    "speaker_name": "Kiambaa, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Njuguna Kawanjiku",
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    "content": "them with zero interest so that they can get a footing whereby they can start working by making sure they improve and contribute to our economy even if they make a 30 per cent profit. What the Member of Nakuru Town East has brought onto the floor of this House is very important. This job will create employment. Number two, we will also ensure we have eradicated idleness and maybe drug and alcohol abuse within our institutions and villages. The moment you give this young person hope, when he goes to the NCA and has a registration certificate, he will start thinking of how to try to get a job. The moment you make it very difficult for him to access some of those Government documents you pay a lot of money for to get the licensing and start performing and functioning as a young person, you kill their dream and fail to give them hope. They have hope the moment they have this certificate and they know that tomorrow will be better than today. They know they will continue putting papers in order. Maybe one day, they will get a job, employ themselves, their brother and sister, and probably extend to the village level. That way, we distribute hope. We ensure that we are a government, an institution, or a country building hope for so many young people who do not have hope today. The moment you make it difficult even to register those companies, those young people will just idle out there. If he knows he has a company, he comes to my office and tells me: \"I have this company\". The first thing you ask him is whether he has the right documents. How can he have the right document if we are not able to facilitate him as a Government? Probably, he has just come out from the university or Form IV. Two, it is becoming so difficult to access some of those documents. We must be in a position to support the young people and ensure we distribute and give them hope. As they continue tarmacking to look for a white-collar job, they can also know there is hope. I appreciate what the Government is doing by ensuring we have enough Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET) institutions within our constituencies. They have equipped them, especially in areas like Kiambaa Constituency, where you do not have a TVET. I thank the Government because the procurement process is about to start, whereby those young people can go and learn some technical courses. They will use those technical courses to go ahead and apply for that NCA certificate. I rise to support. This is a very important Bill on the Floor of the House. We have no other obligations apart from supporting it. We will bring some amendments to put checks and balances where we will be so certain that it is the young people, women, and people with disabilities applying for this waiver. Hon. Temporary Speaker, there are women and people with disabilities. That ICT thing must be brought into check to make sure that nobody else comes to apply for any waiver, but it is a young person. He must be visible, seen, known, and probably get a letter, even if it is from the chief. Let us make it a bit difficult for the cartels and the people who have been using young people to make millions with companies that those young people are not even aware of."
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