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    "id": 375176,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Njenga",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1510,
        "legal_name": "Francis Kigo Njenga",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to move the following Motion:- THAT, aware that a majority of the residents of Kenya are youth under the age of 30 years, whose numbers are being increased in the ranks of the unemployed every year after completion of primary and secondary school; further aware that the Government has invested a lot of money in them through free primary and secondary education; also noting that the revenue collected by this economy is in excess of Kshs.1trillion, and that the country has immense opportunities available to create employment for the said youth who will contribute to the realization of Vision 2030, this House urges the Government to consider spending 1 per cent of its revenues to finance training in applied sciences in village polytechnics and institutes of technology within the country through soft, repayable loans that will be channeled through the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF), similar to how the Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) finances university education. This has been brought about by the realization that the enrolment for KCPE increased from 695,000 pupils in 2008 to 812,000 pupils in 2012. That is a great increase. Enrolment for secondary schools increased from 277,000 students to approximately 437,000 students. Such growth indicates that the people who are leaving Form Four are still increasing and, at the same time, the primary school drop-outs are increasing. However, noting that those are brain resources, people who should be contributing to the economic wealth of this nation and people who must be prepared to produce goods and services, I find this, therefore, to ensure that after Form IV, such people are given an opportunity to pursue vocation training and even other technical training in both public and private institutions. In doing so, I am also noting that under Schedule IV of the Constitution, polytechnics and other institutions could be under county governments."
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