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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Nyamu",
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    "content": "schools. They join the job market and do not find employment that is commensurate to their training and aspirations. The other thing that the President has been doing is the export of labor. I have heard people criticizing this program saying that they want to make it at home and do not want to have labor exported to other countries. There are families in this country who are poverty-ridden and survive by sending a member of their family outside the country. The Philippines are one of leading nations in economy. They have the labour export contribution 12 per cent of their GDP. Those efforts have been done by that country deliberately. That is what the President has been trying to achieve. I challenge the youth, now that we have affordable fertilizer and vast agricultural land in the country, to get involved in agribusiness. There is huge potential in agribusiness. You can become self-employed and be part of nation-building in that way. Our young people in Nairobi are usually used during the political process. We rely on them heavily for campaigns. They are a tool for creating hype for us candidates. However, when you get into office, your hands are tied because you want to help them, but the available opportunities are not that many. If I open for you my Instagram direct message now, the amount of messages of people begging me to assist them get employment--- I have observed this over time and wondered how long we can sustain this kind of desperation among the youth. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have the advantage of having a majority of youth that have energy, a lot of potential and are well educated. It is time as a country we come up with ways to utilize these young people because when they are not employed and channeling their energy the right way, we end up getting instability and being exposed to political triggers that we saw the last two weeks. The youth came to the streets because of other reasons like lack of employment for them and their mothers, and a myriad of reasons that took them to the streets. Truth be told, the Finance Bill had very little to do with it. The misinformation that was with the youth that took to the streets was noticeable. I saw ladies carrying placards protesting the increase of taxes on sanitary products and diapers, which is not the truth. Who in their right senses can dare tax sanitary towels and diapers in Kenya? The Government wanted us to be self-sufficient in that field by introducing an eco-levy on the substandard, bad quality imported sanitary towels and diapers from China. Truth be told, there is a huge demand for pads and diapers. If we grow that industry, it will create jobs for our people. These young people who took to the streets are the ones who are going to benefit instead of that labour going to the Chinese youth. We will end up utilising the Kenyan labour. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am on record in this House tasking the Finance and Budget Committee to give this House an audit on how many of our young people have benefited from the Access to the Government Procurement Opportunities (AGPO) programme. I wanted to know how many young people are getting tenders in our parastatals and county governments that rightfully belong to them. We have to interrogate these opportunities that are already available that are not going to our young people and goes to the wrong hands. This leads us to end up having the situation like the one we had. Concerning the Finance Bill, I am one of those people who believe and can swear by the The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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