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    "id": 238451,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/238451/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Kuti",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister of State for Youth Affairs",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Mohammed Abdi Kuti",
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, sorry for that interruption. I am just about to finish. Some people have to say something anyway, all the time! Slow economic growth, rapid increase in the number of youth graduating from secondary and tertiary education institutions, inability of public and private sectors to accommodate this large group of skilled young graduates accounts for youth unemployment in the country. In the absence of opportunities in the formal labour markets, young people turn to self- employment in the informal sector. The Government has addressed youth unemployment in several policy documents such as the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper which extensively elaborates on youth employment strategies through youth entrepreneur training, micro-credit skills, vocational training and career guidance service development, youth leadership training and ICT skills training. The Ministry of Youth Affairs intends to collaborate with other stakeholders to implement these strategies with emphasis on increasing financial commitments to youth employment initiatives. The Government has formed an inter-Ministerial task force on employment creation for the youth mainly through re-afforestation, road construction and labour export. The task force draws its membership from the Office of the President, the Ministry of Youth Affairs, the Ministries of Labour and Human Resource Management, Environment and Natural Resources, Roads and Public Works and Planning and National Development. We believe that through structured labour export schemes, it will be possible for the youth with the right skills, experience and education, to get international jobs in other liberalised external markets. Locally, the use of labour intensive technologies will generate employment opportunities for the youth, especially through large public works and road construction."
}