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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, the issue of the youth is a constitutional issue. This Government has said that it is going to give priority to promotion of youth enterprise. The practical steps are like this one that we are talking about here today. Let the county youth service centres be areas where we will provide that expertise. Let them be the breeding grounds for incubating youth enterprise for creating businessmen and also the staging ground from which our disciplined forces recruit. If we will have those centres, we will also be providing opportunity for teachers. I have seen many teachers in the so-called village polytechnics going without employment or salaries for a long time. We can also create teacher training colleges where we can train the youth for those polytechnics and tertiary institutions. As a result, they will help us as masons, welders and such things. You will be surprised that when we were doing the pipeline from Nairobi to Eldoret, we had to get industrial welders from China. Why can we not train them in this country? Mr. Speaker, Sir, there are a lot of opportunities and I think that this Motion has come at the right time. The relevant Committee should follow it up to make sure that resources are channeled to the NYS. But the NYS itself should devolve to the various counties, so that we can sort out this issue of youth unemployment, apathy and hopelessness. Mr. Speaker, Sir, with those few remarks, I beg to support."
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