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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Oketch Gicheru",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, if you attend a tertiary institution and you have studied some technical skills in National Industrial Training Authority (NITA), you will pay Kshs100,000. The professional body will require you to pay Kshs49,500 - as a young person - to be a member. What are we doing to the young people in this country? I hope that the Cabinet Secretary in charge of Labour and Social Protection in this country will take this very seriously. In fact, this entire board should be sanctioned. This exploitation of young people makes it completely prohibitive. This is the HRMPEB professionals’ examination board. It is not fair to young people to go through higher institution of learning, colleges, tertiary education and when you come back you are being prohibited from joining these professional bodies because of the exorbitant fees. Once you have paid them all this money, they do not even give you after sale services. Mr. Speaker, Sir, if one is taking all this money ordinarily, then they should make sure that there are after sale services such as getting placement for jobs. As a young person, you have paid all this money, but you are also being told to and tarmac. If you get the job, you are then informed that you do not have experience. After going through NITA, Kenya School of Mass Communication and professional bodies where you have spent your entire savings, young men are left to die without a job. We wonder why crime rates have increased in Nairobi City County. In Mombasa County, for example, we are also seeing drugs among young people. It is because of this frustration. This is what I hope the Government of the day will see because the hustler nation where the Senate Majority Leader and my brother the Senator of Nandi County are, the rate of stress and depression related deaths is sky rocketing. It is 11 per cent in Eldoret, seven per cent in Kisumu county and about 15 per cent in places like Nairobi City Count. These young people do not have opportunities for jobs and they are being frustrated. I rest at that and make a very small comment on the issue of accidents that we have seen in this country that claimed the life of comrades from KU---"
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