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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we also have the fibre optic cable project that still has a great opportunity for creating employment in this country, as is the case in India and other places, where outsourcing centers have become a key source of employment for young people. However, the questions I asked myself are: How prepared are we to take advantage of the opportunities that the fibre optic cable project is going to provide? Are our young people adequately trained? Do they have the necessary skills to start digital villages and outsourcing centers? Do we have money set aside for that purpose? We need to prepare ourselves accordingly and adequately for this particular opportunity. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I, therefore, hope that in the coming Budget, which is going to be presented to this House next month, we will have some Budgetary allocations to enable us take advantage of the opportunities that result from fibre optic cable installation. I would also like to talk about the issue of increasing the retirement age to 60 years. It is so obvious that we are suffering from an acute unemployment. If we are, really, serious bout dealing with unemployment, then it does not make sense to increase the retirement age to 60 years when we still have so many young people out there, who are unemployed. Let us retain the age at 55. Perhaps we should think of increasing the salaries of civil servants, instead of increasing their years of service, so that the better salaries will better prepare them to leave public service and begin new life after retirement. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I also want to talk about the reform agenda. We have a heavy agenda ahead of us in this Parliament. We have the issues of the review of the Constitution, and the constitution of an electoral commission and a commission to review electoral boundaries. I hope that hon. Members will play a bi-partisan role and give Kenya the much-awaited new Constitution. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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