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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kobado",
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    "content": "standard. A number of them are sub-standard and really counterfeit. So, if that was to be stopped by proper surveillance so that those things do not come in, there is a possibility that this country would be a major supplier in this region, but increasingly continue to be a consumer society. That includes the food products that you see in the supermarkets. A number of those things can be grown locally, but most of them are imported. Indeed, even today, I am told that with regard to fish which we farm and produce locally, the Chinese are already importing the fish in large quantities and selling them very cheaply. With Kshs100, you can get a ngege fish from China and yet, it should cost about Kshs500 locally. Hon. Deputy Speaker, we need serious reforms particularly in the small and micro enterprise sector. The Government should focus more on transfer of technology and imparting skills in the youth so that they can become more or less producers in their own rights. We are aware that today, 92 per cent of unemployed youth have no vocational or entrepreneurial skills. Already, the implementation of the Uwezo Fund leaves a lot to be desired. Those people are on the ground training already and yet, they have not done any needs assessment study. I want to imagine that they should have started by looking at the needs so that as they can start the training to empower the youth and women they know the gaps that they should be filling. If that is not done, the Uwezo Fund will be more or less like the ESP Programme that was there during the Tenth Parliament. With those many remarks, I support the Motion."
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