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    "id": 375225,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/375225/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Bichage",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Chris Munga Nyamaratandi Bichage",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I would like to remind hon. Mbadi that I am extremely digital. This Motion could not have come at a better time because we are at a crossroads, and we want to introduce self-reliance to all Kenyans, including the youth. I want to thank hon. Njenga for this Motion. We are doing a lot of work at cross-purposes, and this is not helping our nation. Any nation that wants to prosper must address three things. The first one is health. If you do not have healthy people, you do not have a healthy nation. The second one is education. If you do not have education, even if you set up a youth fund it will all be a waste of money. What is the point of setting up a youth fund for our children who do not have skills? They will only drink the money. You must first of all provide skills and then give the money. That way they can be entrepreneurs. The third thing is affordable energy. If you do not have affordable energy, there is no way you are going to realize Vision 2030. Currently we are struggling. You give our industries opportunities to manufacture, yet they churn out goods which are not saleable. If we look at the model of the Asian Tigers, all the things that we buy from China are manufactured by polytechnic youth and not university graduates. It is high time we shifted the paradigm in this country. There is a craze for getting university degrees, including forging them. I am told there are people who have a full time job of manufacturing certificates at River Road. We, therefore, have a lot of MBAs which are questionable. We are not looking for degree certificates; rather, we are looking for skills. We want our nation to prosper. We must streamline village polytechnics. Currently we have a serious problem of everybody wanting a white collar job. In the construction industry you cannot survive with white collar jobs. You must have blue collar jobs. We want to shift the paradigm in this country. All Kenyans must embrace, like and admire blue collar jobs because that is what puts food on the table. This Motion is so important that this Parliament should actually put everything aside and make sure that our youth are trained and equipped with skills. Currently we have a problem at the constituencies, because everybody wants to be given money. Everybody is begging. There is a beggar mentality, because once you give them money"
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