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    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang'",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I had earlier wanted to rise on a point of order but this is still sufficient. If this Senate finds it boring and a waste of time to discuss youth and unemployment, then what are we here for? This is happening on International Women’s day when we know that the majority of citizens of this country are women and most of them are under 18 years of age. We would rather spend time discussing the youth and unemployment rather than some of the theatrics that we have subjected this House to. I am disappointed but I believe there is still hope. The Chairperson of the Committee on Labour and Social Welfare has at some point indicated that he is not satisfied with an element of the response that came back. I am also not satisfied with certain elements of the response. There are some numbers that we must validate because when the employment agency says that in 2016/2017 they registered 18,000 job seekers and placed 10,000 of them, one would ask himself or herself: How many job seekers are in this country? If the National Employment Authority (NEA) only reaches 18,000 people out of the hundreds of thousands or millions of Kenyans, this is an Authority that is not doing anything close to the mandate for which it was established. We need to understand the practical, legal or systemic problems facing this Authority for it not to achieve that. This Authority is even supposed to give advice on issues of employment in counties yet when this Parliament started--- We had serious issues in counties because all the new governors were sacking people who had been appointed by their predecessors. What is the NEA doing about this now that the Chairperson has indicated that certain aspects of that response are not satisfactory? Would it be in order to allow him to go and get a more satisfactory answer because in his own words, it is not satisfactory?"
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