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    "id": 373305,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Shebesh",
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        "legal_name": "Rachel Wambui Shebesh",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, Sir, I rise to support this Motion and to congratulate hon. Njomo who has moved it. It speaks directly to an issue that is almost a crisis in this country which is youth unemployment. It also highlights a fundamental flaw that has been in the Government for long where we have set up beautiful institutions, which fail to work because of lack of implementation and lack of structure. It is shocking that employees pay a fee for everybody who is in the industry that goes to a training levy, which I am 100 per cent sure that if the Members were asked how many of their constituents have benefited from this Training Levy, we would not get a positive response. In Nairobi County, we have industries that have literally died. There was a time when you could tell Industrial Area from afar because you could see smoke and know that the industries are operating. Today, Industrial Area has been turned into go-downs that are storing goods that come from China and South Africa. So, instead of building our industries, we have been killing them, yet we have funds like these, which can uplift the skills of our population. One of the things that we are very proud of as a country is our labour force, which is probably the best in Africa. We have an educated and skilled population. We have university graduates up to Masters level but it is because of our inadequacy that we are unable to implement the various programmes. I think it is superfluous for us to urge the Government. This House should resolve, so that the resolution can be taken up by the Implementation Committee of this House and then the Government can be forced to implement what they promised, in terms of the training levy. So, instead of talking about"
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