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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Rop",
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        "legal_name": "Jackson Kipkorir Rop",
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    "content": "People think that those who are employed are well endowed or are better off but the reality is that those who are doing business and investments are doing so much. So, it is a worthwhile venture that we are bringing the youth into business at an early stage so that they can start investing. This is so that we can now talk of that double growth initiative in this country. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the challenges that we have are that we ought to empower this youth and empower them to enter into business. This means that they must have registration certificates of their companies. I want to join my colleagues in supporting the devolution of the company that is registering the youths to the counties so that they can access that registration as fast as possible. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I also believe that capacity building is of essence to this youth to participate in business. They should know how to develop business plans so that they can also catch up with others. I was at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) recently and I wondered whether Kenya is turning into China. You find hawkers from the Chinese community hawking in this town and you wonder why they are taking up our businesses yet we have youths who are lying around with no jobs. We want to protect the youths and give them the opportunity to exercise what they have learnt. I also want to propose that because these youths do not have money to start businesses, they should be given cheap loans. They can also be given advances from the contracts that they have been given, so that they can start these businesses. This is because you can give a youth a project of Kshs30 million, but do they have that money. I beg to support the amendment Bill."
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