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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Okoth",
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        "legal_name": "Kenneth Odhiambo Okoth",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I rise to support this Motion and thank hon. Jude Njomo, Member of the Departmental Committee on Labour and Social Welfare, for bringing it up. It is a timely issue. I want to comment about this Motion in the sense of our education system, in a broad sense, and how it serves or does not serve our young people. Training is at the last end of education once we are done with basic education and preparing our young people to be productive citizens in different careers. One of the key things, and I think is an initiative beyond what we are talking about in this Motion would be to consider basic financial skills and business management skills. One of the aspects of this Motion is to look at ways where apprentices who gain practical experience can also go ahead and gain the funding and capital to start their businesses. Our young people are crying and dying to get capital to start their businesses. Without access to title deeds or other resources which they can put up to get funding from commercial sources, their ideas, opportunities and training does not move them far in life. We are looking at one or two ways to generations already in Kenya just based on this issue of lack of a clear plan of transitioning our young people from the education system into the labour force in a very productive manner. So, I would emphasize and ask that we look at ways in which our education system at all levels, beginning at the primary school level, can have an introduction to financial literacy and business management skills, so that by the time we get to a point where young people who have practical knowledge and skills, for example, mechanics and plumbers, can also get funding. I appreciate initiatives that are coming out of the private sector. My Kibra Constituency is the headquarters of banking and insurance in this region. We have in Upper Hill, banks such as Equity Bank. I hope others will follow in their footsteps because they have already been filling in these gaps to know that we cannot lift our people out of poverty if we expect all of them to wait to be employed. We have to give"
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