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    "id": 375210,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/375210/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wakhungu",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1889,
        "legal_name": "Chrisantus Wamalwa Wakhungu",
        "slug": "chrisantus-wamalwa-wakhungu"
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    "content": "Thank you hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I rise to second the Motion. We have been fighting poverty in this country since our fore-fathers. The problem has been poverty, disease and ignorance. Today, 50 years down the line, we are still fighting poverty. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, research has shown that 70 per cent of the unemployed people in this country are the youth. Anyone who goes to school will wish to go to university. The current cutoff for admission to university through the Joint Admission Board (JAB) has been a C+. The latest statistics show that we have about 120,000 Kenyans who qualify to join universities. Unfortunately, the Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) can only fund those that JAB has given admission. Research has shown that JAB only admits about 10 per cent of those students who qualify to go to university. So, the remaining large number has nowhere to go. The only option is to go to middle level colleges. Research has also shown that the economies that perform well are through Small and Medium Enterprises (SME). The majority of SMEs are the people are graduate from middle level colleagues. People who have gone through middle colleges - the polytechnics and technical institutes because---"
}