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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kimeto",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimeto",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity. We have many youth in this country and the Ministry is new. It is headed by a young Minister! The Minister has brought this Sessional Paper to the House to address problems facing the youth. However, they are very many. Although we are training most of our youth in polytechnics, the Minister has not set out modalities in this Sessional Paper how the Ministry will assist the youth after they graduate from those polytechnics. What are they going to do after completing their studies? He has not allocated money to cater for the youth after they complete their education in polytechnics. Most of them stay without jobs after completing their studies. They also lack the start up capital to enable them put into practice the skills that they learnt in the universities, polytechnics and other colleges. The Minister should allocate funds in the Ministry's budget to assist the youth to start businesses and other projects after completing their studies. The money that we are giving them under the Youth Enterprise Development Fund is very little. If we have to make our youth useful, we should utilise them to do the roads in the rural areas. By so doing, they will be able to earn a living and support themselves. For example, the Maai Mahiu- Narok Road will cost Kshs6 billion to rehabilitate. If we assigned the youth to do that road, it would cost the Government less than the Kshs6 billion. In my constituency, I have contracted the youth to do roads using the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) money. However, the CDF Act does not allow us to engage the youth to do the roads. Why do we not allow them to do all the roads in our constituencies and pay them? If we do that, they will become very useful to the society. They will not engage in crime. The only problem is that we talk about things which we 4600 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES October 17, 2007 cannot even implement. If we continue to talk about things which we cannot implement, then our youth will grow old without doing any constructive work. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, let me turn to the issue of health care. Every year, we train nurses from different parts of the country--- Why do we not set aside money to enable them set up private dispensaries and clinics in villages? We can also have health facilities in villages which are funded by the Ministry. Very many trained nurses and clinical officers are still jobless. The Minister needs to prepare a budget for these youth so that we can provide them with money to start projects. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, let us also ban the importation of manufactured goods. Let us manufacture goods in this country, because we have many youth who can provide labour. Most our of youths are jobless because we are importing most goods. Why do we not make use of our youth to manufacture goods like electronics? Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, with those few remarks, I beg to support."
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