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    "id": 189897,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Bishop Wanjiru",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Housing",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 372,
        "legal_name": "Margaret Wanjiru Kariuki",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I stand to support the Motion. I will make my contribution very short and simple. I would first of all like to congratulate the Minister for carrying herself very well yesterday and today. However, we still do not find the development agenda on the documents they gave us. So, we have managed to get a few copies for ourselves. I see in the development agenda, there is Kshs465 million for polytechnics for skills training. I would like to request that this money be speedily spent to transform the polytechnics into universities. This was announced last year but very little was done. This has caused strikes within the polytechnics. This is because some of the polytechnics know that they are supposed to be operating as universities, but they have not shown any indication of being universities. So, that transformation should be fast-tracked so that our polytechnics can move to university level so that we begin to feel the impact. Secondly, I would like to make a suggestion to the Ministry to create a mentoring department; a department that can mentor, as the hon. Member who has just contributed said, from youthship to political leadership and also from youthship to jobs on wealth creation. We are talking about investors coming to our country and investing a lot of money. The next thing they do is to import, at least, a quarter of their staff and the rest of the vacancies are advertised locally. We have people moving from one company to another. The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports can simply link with other Ministries, especially the Ministries that deal with investors so as to get jobs for our youths. In the meantime, the youth should line up and wait for those opportunities to come so that they can position themselves. That way, we do not have to transfer somebody who comes from job \"a' to \"b' when it is the same person who has a job yet we have so many youths who are jobless. I would suggest that a mentoring department be established because it will do a lot of good for wealth creation, leadership and everything else. We should mentor our youths towards that direction. I would also like to say that we have done very well on sports. So much has been said by hon. Members concerning sports, but I would like to request that we add incentives for our sportsmen. The incentives are so low that our sportsmen would rather lose their Kenyan identity instead of even coming to the Ministry to negotiate for better incentives. I kindly request you to look into the issue of incentives for sportsmen. Finally, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, let me touch on the issue of the Youth Enterprise Development Fund. We have so many bottle-necks. I do not know whether it is because of the intermediaries. The Ministry should simplify the criteria of disbursing the Youth Enterprise Development Fund to make it easily accessible by the youth. Let us also zero it down to one youth instead of waiting for a group. When we talk about groups, sometimes they do not want to work as groups but you can find an individual who has got very good ideas. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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