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    "id": 705498,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Shakila Mohamed",
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        "legal_name": "Shakila Abdalla",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to support this very important Motion. I first want to thank Hon. Mwaura for bringing this Motion. About 70 per cent of this country’s population is made up of the youth. Unless the Government does something for the youth, it will not be very healthy. The youth will be idle. Our youths are very idle. Most of them are very educated and yet, they have no jobs. That is why some youths have turned to radicalisation, drugs and many other menaces in this country, which have contributed to many crimes. We should do something to occupy our youth so as to prevent them from committing crimes. We have our polytechnics which are not very well equipped and not doing much for our youth. We need to nurture their talents from the school level. Our children are only forced to pass examinations in schools with no idea of what to do with the certificates. They have no idea of careers because they have not been nurtured to take up what they are good in. The Government has done a lot in the field of innovation by providing funds and other projects like the National Youth Service (NYS), but that is not enough for the 70 per cent of our population. We have not empowered our youth to know how to access those funds. We should train them on how to access those funds. That money is taken back to the National Treasury and it might be benefiting the wrong people as opposed to our youth. Our youth are not even in a position to access the 30 per cent that they have been given by the Government to access tenders. They do not have any idea of accessing the capital that is already there. We should change our education system to ensure that we have innovation centres so that our teachers can identify the talents of your youth and nurture them to develop their careers. Those who have come up with innovations have not been recognised because this country has nothing to offer to our youth in terms of growing their talents. With those few remarks, I support."
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