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    "content": "loans individually so that they borrow and apply the same amount of money into the skills that they have so that they can do well. My county has suffered a lot through the Agricultural Finance Corporation (AFC). When you hear of pieces of land being sold in Kajiado, you should know that this is not usually on a willing buyer, willing seller basis. The AFC has participated in this. When the previous Government was waiving loans related to the agricultural sector, especially coffee and tea, those people with livestock were left to continue suffering. Our people had borrowed money from the AFC and owing to drought, they did not manage to service their loans properly. The AFC would sell their land even without giving them time to recover. I would be happy if the Mover of the Motion, which is a good Motion, would allow some time for all of us to contribute to it so that we see how our youth can get funds individually and whether they should be graduates or not without specifically putting boundaries. On the other hand, we need to look at some institutions as the Senate, for example, the Kenya Industrial Research and Development Institute (KIRDI) which is supposed to assist people who come up with innovations. These are people who come up with projects and who are talented. Young people who are talented can come up with industries. I remember that one time, a group of some young people came up with an idea of making bricks at Kibiku. Owing to lack of funds, they could not. They had come up with a super project on how the whole thing would work. The raw materials would be found locally but they did not get funding. You also have to look at simple projects like crashing of ballast. That does not necessarily require a lot of funds. If some groups of young men and women were allowed to come up with such projects and funded by the KIRDI, they would have good crashing plants and sell ballast. In my constituency, we have a lot of raw materials for ballast. This is not just in my county. I know many others. If you go to arid areas, you will find that they are very rocky and you will even think that there is nothing that can be grown there. However, for any infrastructure to come up, the rocks, which are raw materials, would be required. There are some institutions which I feel, as the Senate, we need to talk about and see whether we can come up with laws so that our young people can access loans from those institutions. I support the Motion but with amendments."
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