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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Gikaria",
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        "legal_name": "David Gikaria",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I rise to support the Motion and thank hon. Njomo for bringing this timely Motion for deliberation in this House. I also want to take this opportunity to thank the previous lady speaker for, at least, enlightening us on this funding. It was a good presentation when she told us where, as hon. Members of this House can go, learn more and see how it can directly benefit our people. I want to say that the founding fathers of this nation had very good policies and ideas for this country. Those are the good policies that the founding father had brought in by introducing industrial training institutes and amplifying that by creating the Kenya Industrial Estates (KIE) so that he could address what hon. Njomo is saying. I think the Jubilee Government needs to go back to the archives and look into the very good policies that the founding father had brought to this nation. We can actualize the intention of the training institutes and these youths have to be engaged after training. Hon. Njomo has come up with a very good Motion so that we can address and make a resolution in this House that we can follow up. I want to agree that drugs, alcoholism and prostitution have been on the rise among the young people because most of them are idle. It is not because they are not trained; they are trained but it is because they have not had an opportunity to put whatever they have been trained on into practice. If these monies can assist young people to start business through the SMEs, alcoholism and other vices will come down in this country. The youth have not been given opportunity to train and if they have been trained they have not been given an opportunity to start businesses. It is high time this Government considered Article 55 of the Constitution seriously so that our youth benefit from training. There has been an influx of Chinese products in this country and this is worrying. So many young people have been trained in carpentry, but we still prefer going for furniture from outside. We need to ask ourselves how we can engage the youth in starting things like furniture workshops and so on. In my constituency wood carving is a money earner for the young people. This is because tourists who visit Lake Nakuru and other sites buy these items. We have an industry in Nakuru that trains young people in wood carving. The problem is that after they leave college they have nowhere to go. They do not have money to start their own curio shops. We need to think further than just the training. I am sure my constituency will benefit given the high number of tourists who visit Nakuru. We could even be forced to get some of the wood carvings from other areas. I want to agree with hon. Wamalwa. There are institutions that issue fake certificates. Most young people have attended these colleges, but they cannot use the certificates anywhere because they do not meet required standards."
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