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    "id": 55991,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kabando wa Kabando",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Kabando wa Kabando",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise to support this Bill. There is great need for us to head forward and emphasize on the need to put resources in place, in order to complete the very critical projects. For example, in my Ministry, there are very many major projects in all the counties of this country that require completion so that we may, in our small way, occupy the population of the youths lying idle in the villages. The Youth Empowerment Centres have not been completed and those that have infrastructure do not have equipment and resource persons have not been allocated. We have hundreds of polytechnics constructed by Local Authorities Transfer Fund and CDF in this country and many of which are lacking instructors. The hiring of over 2,000 personnel by my Ministry will make a difference in all the constituencies. This will enable us to attain the constitutional obligation of this Government in order to access training, employment and resources to our greatest segment which is the youth. As we all know, the major reason for the 2007/2008 post election violence, in addition to the other reasons that have been presented, was really the impatience of our youth because of non-involvement in economic activities. Having said that, it is also important to send a message to the Treasury and our officers that we need to spotlight on diligence. We have the Kenya Industrial Estates and the Industrial Development Bank which needs about Kshs3 billion to create over 200,000 jobs for young people so that they are occupied and can get an income and develop in a way that will create personal satisfaction and wealth for the people of Kenya. We have many other projects like partnership with Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and partnership with international investors that require this allocation to be fast-tracked."
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