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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nakara",
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        "legal_name": "John Lodepe Nakara",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the Members are conversing in high tones. I was trying to say that we should also consider the youth who are illiterate, who have not gone to school because of the unavoidable circumstances. Maybe they did not receive education or they were looking after their livestock. This group of people needs to be assisted. As we create this Authority, we must make sure that those youth who have no education are considered too. We could give them loans or grants so that they start their own lives. On the issue of offices, we need to make sure that we do not only come to Nairobi to get major information about the youth. We want to encourage this Bill to take offices to the constituency level. That is very important so that we can encourage our youth to go to the constituency to get information. On the issue of the policies, we have passed many policies concerning youth in this House, but there has been no urgent follow up on implementation. If we have this Authority in place, all the youth policies that we have passed in this House, we shall tell this Authority to follow up and implement them so that the youth can get the benefits of those policies. We have passed the Uwezo Fund here and the Youth Empowerment Programme, but we have not felt the achievements, results or the outcome. Why? It is because nobody is responsible. By having this Authority, we shall task people to make sure that they implement the youth policies. On the issue of youth exploitation, we have many youth who have been exploited. That is why you find that some youth are being taken to Saudi Arabia or to Asian countries to do domestic jobs. Even if somebody is educated, when they go to those countries, they do domestic jobs. If we have this Authority in place those skills being wasted abroad could be used here for our benefit. This Authority can also address the issue of drugs. Drugs have killed many youth. So, having this Authority will address the issue of drugs and the youth. This will help our youth come out of this menace that is now spoiling them. I want to conclude by saying that the youth need training, especially the youth who have not gone to school. When we have this Authority in place, we want it to open empowerment centers in every constituency where the youth who have not gone to school can be taken there to be trained on skilled jobs like masonry, carpentry and mechanics so that those skills can help them to get income in their lives. We want to encourage Hon. Sakaja to open up this Authority to the extent of having training centers in our constituencies."
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