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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ms. Ndeti",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports",
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        "legal_name": "Wavinya Ndeti",
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    "content": " Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. First, I would like to take this opportunity to thank the House for supporting the Vote of our Ministry. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, our Ministry is really endeavouring to ensure that the youth of this country are engaged and that they are well taken care of. We know what happened during the post-election violence. Our youth have a lot of energy. Unfortunately, it was not used in the right way. So, it is our duty to ensure that the energy of the youth is directed in the right way. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, it is also our duty as a House and a Ministry to let our youth--- When we were growing up, we were taught to be proud of our country. It is high time we made the youth understand that Kenya is their country and that they were born here. They cannot go anywhere else and so they have to take care of the country. They need to ensure that we do not destroy our own country. We have a mandate of ensuring that our youth and the resources in the country are really taken care of. The Ministry is endeavouring in improving the welfare of the youth through programmes geared towards empowerment and employment and also character building and service to the nation. I would like to, particularly mention the youth empowerment centres. These will be a one- stop shop where the youth will be provided with services like information on employment, sports facilities, guidance and counselling, social halls, internet resource centres and others. It will also be a forum for the incubation of young people and innovation. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, the National Youth Service (NYS) plays a key role in modelling our youth for nation building. They normally take six months in paramilitary training. After that, they undergo two years of nation building in different parts of the country. The recruitment of youth into NYS is conducted countrywide. In the Ministry, we have an allocation of Kshs220 million which is meant to support activities in the constituencies. This is expected to further enhance national cohesion. It is expected that competitions will be organised from the sub- location level to the locational level and then the constituency level. The people who will emerge winners will meet players from other constituencies. Establishment of offices in all districts with officers up to the divisional level countrywide is expected to enhance services to the youth. Affirmative action has to be considered for the youth. We have considered affirmative action in public procurement. This is a positive move that is expected to create more employment opportunities for the youth. The Ministry has also created a database of youth enterprise. This will enable us keep information about the youth. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, the introduction of Information and Communications Technology course in youth polytechnics is a positive development in line with global trends. In the financial year 2007/2008, the Ministry supplied over 100 computers to youth polytechnics."
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