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    "content": "Therefore, the restructuring of the youth fund must be aimed at ensuring that once they access the Government business, they can access credit to do business with the Government and pay after they have been paid by the Government so that an LPO should stand as a guarantee for your credit as a young person. I think it is important that the restructuring of the youth fund should be along constituency and county lines. It is important if hon. Members would be given the power to oversee the management of the youth fund because we work directly with young people, we know what their issues are and we know that they want to access this fund. We want a Member of Parliament who is able to ensure that the young person accesses the youth fund. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, in the last Parliament, I took very young people from my constituency to Equity Bank, Family Bank and the KCB to access the youth fund but they did not access it. Why? They were asked first of all to open an account and on top they were told that they had to be members of those banks for six consecutive months and were required to deposit some amount so that they could eventually get the money. Many young people found that very discouraging and many of them did not get the money. So we need to have an easy way of accessing this credit so that there is no bureaucracy. We need to make it easier for young people to have entrepreneurial skills and in the same line as the CDF Act, we need to see how we can have a kitty for training young people in entrepreneurial skills in simple bookkeeping skills so that we can empower them with the necessary skills to begin business."
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