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    "id": 788566,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Martin Wambugu",
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        "legal_name": "Martin Deric Ngunjiri Wambugu",
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    "content": "In regards to other certificates like HELB and tax compliance certificates, I suggest that we make the decision that we will not be asking our young people to provide those kinds of documents. I say this because in Nyeri, one of the things that my office has done is to create a data pool for all the young people in my constituency who are looking for jobs. One of the biggest challenges that we keep facing is that every time somebody has an opportunity to go for an interview, they have to pay close to Kshs5,000 for the documents, and they still have to look for good suits so as to prepare themselves. Therefore, looking for a job requires Kshs5,000, and that does not guarantee somebody a job. I speak on behalf of many of my colleagues. We are trying to help these young people to access jobs. One of the things that the President’s Big Four Agenda has introduced is to create more than a million jobs. It seeks to create 1.29 million jobs to be exact. Many people who will be looking for jobs are the youth. One of my colleagues said that maybe we are scared that we are going to lose revenue from these payments but any money that we will lose in charges for these documents is going to be recovered immediately when these people get jobs through the PAYE. I, first and foremost, want to congratulate Hon. Faith Gitau for bringing this Motion. I strongly encourage all the Members to look at this as something that is going to benefit people at the local level because it is going to remove the costs. Sometimes you are forced, as a Member of Parliament, to go into your pocket to help somebody to go for an interview or to access the documents. Remember the people we are trying to help to get jobs are from poor backgrounds and can become partakers and contributors to the economy of this country. With those remarks, I support the Motion. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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