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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Njomo",
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        "legal_name": "Jude L. Kangethe Njomo",
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    "content": "I would like to thank all the Members who contributed to this Motion. All of them supported this very important Motion. I thank them profusely for that. This is one Motion that will help our youth to attain technical education. It will help us as a country to create employment for our young people. Kenya is lucky to have a very vibrant youth which is very creative and hard working. Our youth have invented things. We know the Mpesa system was invented here in Kenya and people were coming from all over the world to study it, a brainchild of our Kenyan youth. We have seen our young people even trying to make helicopters. Their minds are creative. We have seen our youths starting businesses without any financial help. Our youths are active and innovative. They are not lazy. However, we have failed as a country, because we have not provided our young people with the necessary technical skills that will help them to move us from where we are to the next level. Countries like Malaysia and China that have become industrialized have done so because they have invested in training their youths. We have a very ambitious Vision 2030 whose purpose is to have the country industrialized by the year 2030, but who is going to fuel this industrialization? Who is going to work in the industries that we are going to start? Are we going to import workers? Are our university graduates going to be our mechanics, carpenters, electricians and computer technicians? It is very clear from the Members’ contributions that many of our middle level colleges are being converted into universities. This will eventually mean that we shall have so many graduates, but we shall have not have people to offer services that are supposed to be offered by the people trained by the middle level colleges. No wonder our youths have already started getting into alcohol abuse, drug addiction and such other vices. We have neglected them. They know they have the capacity to be productive, but we are not giving them an opportunity to be productive. If the provisions of this Motion are implemented, we will ensure that the National Industrial Training Authority is empowered, it can collect enough money and widen its bracket of contributors and then it will enforce the law to ensure that all the employers who are supposed to contribute are contributing. That will give us an avenue to train our youth. I would like to thank hon. Shidiye and hon. Shebesh for introducing an amendment to make this Motion even strong. They replaced the word “urge” with the word “resolves”. That will ensure that this Motion goes to the Committee Stage, so that the Committee on Labour and Social Welfare may pursue that matter further. I thank them very much for doing that. Let me thank the Members once again for thinking about our youth. When we train our youth, when we have a strong youth, we shall not have people trying to influence them in the wrong direction. It has happened when they have been introduced to alcohol and drugs. We are also getting into a very dangerous situation when we see some leaders trying to influence our youth in the wrong political direction. Some people"
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