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    "id": 416706,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Bowen",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "David Kangongo Bowen",
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    "content": "Many of my colleagues who spoke before me said that about 65 per cent of this country’s population comprise of the youth. An equal percentage of unemployed people in this country are the youth. The rate of unemployment in the country is very high. If we set aside 30 per cent of public procurement for the youth, we will empower them. Even the Government has now frozen employment. We have very many university graduates in the market, with very good professional qualifications. The passage of this Bill will empower our youth. By so doing, the Jubilee Government will attain its double-digit economic growth target. Hon. Deputy Speaker, when the youths go about the tendering process, they are given conditions like past experience. Those are the issues that we want removed by this amendment Bill. Assuming that somebody has just graduated from university and there is no job for him, he just registers a company and then he is told that his company must have three years’ experience in the field; it must have audited accounts, and that he must show his company’s bank statements. Such issues must be removed in order to enable our youths to compete in the procurement sector. On the issue of registration of companies, we want this decentralised. Registration of companies should not just be done at Sheria House in Nairobi. We want the Registrar of Companies to open company registration centres at the constituency-level, so that the youth can register their companies at that level. Last week, I was in my county where we talked about Kenya Rural Roads Authority (KERRA) and resources, which were supposed to be allocated to women and the youth. It is really straightforward that the youth and women are locked out because they suffer from the shortcomings I have just stated; bank statements, the audited accounts and so on."
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