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    "id": 557209,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ng’ongo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 110,
        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "as has been read by Hon. Chris Wamalwa, is very clear that we were required by the supreme law of the land to come up with legislative mechanisms to actualize Articles 54, 55 and 56 of the Constitution. That is exactly what we are doing and so there is nothing unconstitutional. I have looked at the Bill and it does not discriminate in any way. This Bill is helping the society as a whole. It is not just targeting the youth. I agree with the Departmental Committee on Labour and Social Welfare when they recommend that we should even make this Authority be responsible for employment in a holistic manner and not just the youth per se . This Authority, in my view, will help this country because we have so many quack employment bureaus which take advantage of Kenyans who are susceptible and desperate to get employment. That is why we have seen a number of times Kenyans in the Middle East crying to come back home. They cannot even come back home because the people who misled them that there were employment opportunities in those countries were people who were not motivated by interest of the youths or the unemployed but were more motivated by the profit they would make when they form their firms to collect the service charge pretending to help those Kenyans get employment. So, we will now have a Government organ that is tasked with the responsibility of registering those Kenyans who are unemployed but have the skills, the capacity and the knowledge required to add value and create more wealth for this economy. I am also happy that this Authority is going to help in counselling our youth. Many of our youth do not get jobs not because they are not capable of working but because they are not prepared for the job market. For many of our youth, there is a mismatch between the skills and what the industries need. We need an authority which is going to match the skills required by the industry with the education that we offer in our schools. Most of us have complained about this requirement of experience that many employers want. The experience does not have to be gained when you are employed and being paid a salary. You can gain experience through internship, pro bono offer of services. We need an authority that is going to regulate, bring order and formalize a framework through which our youth can get internship and attachments in various companies to gain the skills and expertise required to offer service to these companies. I am happy with the Authority keeping databases. I am happy with the trainings that the Authority will offer. I am happy with the counselling services that the Authority is supposed to give. I am happy that the Authority is going to give information regarding where there will be employment opportunities and it is now going to be a requirement that State organs, whether at the county level or the national level, will be required to make public those vacancies through this Authority so that those people with required expertise within the database of the Authority are made aware of the opportunities that exist and so they can offer themselves. We will have an authority that can coach our youth on interview skills. There are so many people who go for interviews and they do not know how to answer questions; not that they do not have the intelligence and the capacity to work but they do not know how to convince employers that they are the right people to do those jobs. One of them is where someone is asked: What are your weaknesses? That is a question that many people find very difficult to answer. Now we will have an authority that can coach our youth on how to answer some of these questions. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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