{"id":685609,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/685609/?format=json","text_counter":242,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. (Ms) B.N. Nyaga","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":1051,"legal_name":"Beatrice Nkatha Nyaga","slug":"beatrice-nkatha-nyaga"},"content":"Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity. I sit in the PIC. I want to thank my very able Chairman for the good job that we have done. The YEDF was meant to assist the youth of this country but the people who were given the responsibility of taking care of the Fund have not done what was expected of them. They have misappropriated the money that was meant for empowerment of our youth to enable them build stable families that can take care of themselves. The youth, who are supposed to assist in developing this country’s economy, cannot do so because of the greedy individuals who have stolen their funds to enrich themselves and their families. The culprits are very rich people, but they have taken away the money meant for the development of the youth of this country. The youth cannot develop themselves because the people who were given the responsibility of administering the YEDF took away the money that was meant to be lent out to the youth. In our Report, we have recommended that the EACC and the Directorate of Criminal Investigations should do their jobs and give a report within two months so that the perpetrators of this crime can be taken to court. Whatever they took should be given back to the youth so that they build their future and the future of this country."}