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    "id": 1433922,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1433922/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Samburu West, KANU",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Naisula Lesuuda",
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    "content": "As a country, we have been encouraging our young people who do not get placements in universities and colleges to consider joining TVETs. Almost each and every constituency, in this country has a TVET or Technical Training Institute (TTI) as they were known before. I always wonder where those students go after graduating. Salonists, those who study electrical engineering and masonry, where do they go? I think it is important for this Authority to have a database of all the students. I hope once they graduate they will register with this Authority so, that anybody who wants to employ them can access the database and offer them jobs. This is a very good amendment because it is giving more power and incentives to this Authority to connect our young people with the job market. Secondly, I want to talk about the issue of scrap metal. Our young people vandalise the railway line, steel and electricity poles because of joblessness. We go after them but we should go after the business people who use them to vandalise the infrastructure in this country and buy scrap metal from them. We cannot always go after the small people who are used by barons and cartels. The law should apply equally to all. This matter is similar to the issue of banditry and insecurity. We target the young people who are used to steal livestock from others. We should be serious and find out where the livestock is taken after being stolen? Who are the people who probably live in air-conditioned houses and offices in Nairobi and yet, they are the beneficiaries of cattle rustling? We put penalties when we talk about the issues affecting our country. We should not just go after the people down there but also the big people, so that we cut off the entire business from the head all the way down. I support and agree with my colleagues on the issue of giving independence to the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC) and the Judicial Service Commission (JSC). Another issue of concern is about mileage allowance for those who come from far. For example, I come from Samburu. I also agree that those who come from areas near Nairobi should benefit. It should not be an issue of some people benefiting while others do not. We should look at this matter objectively, so that those who have not been benefiting can benefit. That is the conversation I have been hearing from my colleagues. As we talk about the Equalisation Fund, Members should not feel bad because some counties benefit from this Fund. They should put their case on the table and state why they want to benefit. They should not say that only a few counties benefit. I wish we could swap places so that they go to live in the area I come from, so that they see the challenges we face. In this country, it should not be a matter of always competing or looking at what others have or do not have. Members should be objective and bring their issues to this House without belittling the efforts that this country has made by trying to bring all counties at per. I have also seen issues of collection and payment of royalties. There is a lot of Kizungu"
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