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    "content": "they have today. There are very many buildings that have come up. We need to see whether all these people are paying taxes. Are they contributing to the revenue kitty? Some people may be paying taxes while others may be evading paying tax. We need to have some structures in place so that we can check whether we are all paying taxes, especially on income received from development. Mr. Speaker, Sir, on the issue of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), in Trans Nzoia County where I come from, we have a problem of IDPs. Already there are IDPs in this county yet IDPs from other parts of the country are being settled in our county. In my view, the Government should find out where these IDPs came from. If someone came from Eldoret or Nakuru, they should be able to point out the areas where they came from so that if they were business people, they should be facilitated to start businesses instead of allocating them land. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Address captured the issue of the unemployment rate which stands at 70 per cent. This is a very high rate. When you look at this composition of the 70 per cent, it touches on our children, who are graduates. We spend a lot of money educating university students but when they graduate from university, they do not get employed or institutions which can absorb them. This is one area where the Government needs to relook, so that we can have, for example, a development welfare programme in place for university students. If they do not have skills, counties have been allocated 2 per cent of the revenue, which can be used for training purposes. University graduates can be trained and also given money through the CDF kitty because CDF also focuses on issues of the youth, so that they can be able to create employment. If they do so, they will be able to take along the poor man with them. Women, particularly in the rural areas, lack skills. If you give such women Kshs100,000 to start businesses, they may not know how to go about it. However, if we empower our youth or the graduates, they will be able to assist our mothers in the rural areas and may be create employment and make their lives better. Mr. Speaker, Sir, those are the few points I captured. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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