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"content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, if you go to Europe, the Spanish are known to be the best plumbers in Europe because they have put money in training people. What will happen now is that, some of the oldest trades or art, like sewing â if you go to a youth polytechnic in my constituency, you will find that there is only, maybe, one sewing machine and there are 10, 12 or 15 girls using that single machine to learn. With regard to wielding, we are wielding so many things in our constituencies and counties, but you find that instead of giving our youth this work, we have the same people doing it. The result of this is that our youth never get to learn the trade. That is why you see Chinese coming here in big numbers to do all sorts of work. In fact, some of them have been prisoners, but they are able to do things that our youth can do, for example, just driving a forklift. How would you import people to drive forklifts? What we are discussing is not a small issue. It is a very explosive issue because a big number of the youths in this country do not have any single trade and they cannot afford it. They cannot afford Kshs2,000. If you go to any constituency, you will find over 100 motorcycle riders and only about ten of them have driving licences. They cannot raise either Kshs3,000 or Kshs2,000 to acquire licences."
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