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    "content": "and other drug substances and take alcohol with their friends. In the process, they plan what they can do to make more money. Some of these plans are learnt on television. In the past, robbers never used to kill anybody. Nowadays, they are exposed to the internet and are idle. They watch these movies and then put them into practice. Early this month, some youth were lynched in Kiminini because they had resorted to burglary and thuggery as a way of making a living. As a parent, when your child is not engaged in employment and goes out and in the evening he comes back with “fat pockets”, one should get concerned. Madam Temporary Speaker, I have looked at this Motion very critically and it touches on the lives of every family out there. I was so touched by a story in the newspaper of a student who has done a degree in Sociology, lives in Mathare and has resorted to selling water. This is a human resource that the Government and parents have spent money on. So, we should not let our children go to the dogs. Some children have even become manambas or boda boda riders which is very low for somebody who has a university degree or even who has gone to college because these polytechnics impart skills in their students. Since they lack the startup capital, they opt for boda boda business. I came across a parent who had educated his child who came to Nairobi to look for a job. After some months, this girl gave up and said: “I will go back home even if it means going to dig our shamba .” That is how desperate our children are out there. They are looking at us, as leaders, to find solutions for them. I think this is an opportunity for us, Senators, to look at this problem. If this fund is set up, it is us who will go to our counties and look for names of our youth who have training and collect their CVs. If it is walking them to the Governors’ offices, we can do so and demand that they benefit from that fund. Madam Temporary Speaker, the objective of this Motion is to awaken the responsibility of the State to address the gross problem of unemployment amongst graduates by providing them with funds to venture into micro and macro-enterprises in the various counties. It is to establish the GEF that will be administered through the county governments to provide grants for revolving and interest-free loans to applicants. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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