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    "content": "them capital and the skills to manage that money to grow it to create jobs and wealth. That is the model that we need in order to move ahead. I also want to emphasize that beyond the financial literacy and business management skills in our schools, one of the things that we need to look at is jobs readiness and career guidance. I happen to have been blessed to go to the Starehe Boys Centre where we did not just focus on academics and books, but we also had a chance to meet with professionals from different fields to talk to us about the basics of what different careers look like. So, as young people, we did not spend a lot of time making the wrong directional choices into careers that did not fit with our personalities, inclinations and skills. Again, this is a key part of our training that we need to work on and make sure that young people are aware of the right career choices and how they get ready for the job market and with what skills. This includes if they are not going to get employed in the job market, how they will create their own jobs. The third point is to emphasize the capital for youth development in businesses which ties in with the points I have already mentioned. The formula here is to get willing young people, who are well trained and competent and capable, with a desire to lift this country and move it forward. Add on to that access to capital. With that capital, let the youth businesses be recognized and allowed to get competitive and substantial tenders from the Government. We have paid a lot of lip service. A lot of good things have been said about giving tenders to the youth, but many of the young people are still not yet at the level of getting these tenders from the Government to build, scale up and boost their businesses. I hope that the different Cabinet Secretaries and Government Departments will be pro-active, along with the Jubilee Government Manifesto and the President of this nation, and adopt a pro-youth policy and ensure that 30 per cent of the Government tenders are allowed to qualified youth groups and businesses. This is another way of stemming this generational gap and time-bomb that we have where our young people are not empowered and have not had a chance to start building an economic base and foundation for them. It is only with that formula of proper training, access to capital as well as access to business opportunities that we will see an explosion of the next generation of wealth and job creation in this country that does not rely on a very small section of our society that has had the blessing of inheriting any wealth or businesses from their families. We discussed this before and hon. Njomo brought it up about the National Industrial Training Agency (NITA). It is disappointing that only 16,000 employers in our nation are participating actively. We have a possibility of having more than 50,000 employers contributing to this levy and participating in this system to make it reach a level where it can have a quantum impact on what we need to do. My suggesting here would be that we look at a system of naming and shaming the employers who are avoiding this. We should point them out and publish that and see if they do not rectify their ways. Even without any court action, just publicizing their names and saying that they are not good corporate citizens and are letting down our country and not following the law is enough of a deterrent and an incentive for employers and corporations to change their behavior. Also, the other side is not in the naming and shaming, but naming and praising the top participating corporations that register all their employees and train them as the Act"
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