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"content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this Motion. I join Hon. Ngunjiri in noting that the population of the youth is actually more than 70 per cent. The biggest threat we have is not Al Shabaab, but the millions of Kenyans who are out there with no employment, hopeless and have nothing to lose. That is something that should not only worry us. It should worry the Government and everyone who is looking to a future for our children. Recently, there was a Government programme that was duped Kenya Youth Employment Opportunities Project (KYOP). When these applications were called in Nakuru County which was to be a pilot county, there was a clear requirement that they must be jobless and between the ages of 18 and 29 years. Out of the 30,000 youth that applied in Nakuru County, only 800 qualified. That tells you that there is a crisis. I do not know which country you are supposed to pay and prove that you are not corrupt. You pay to say you are not corrupt or to say you do not have any debt, or you have cleared your loan or you have started clearing your loan. These requirements are actually things you cannot comprehend. People from Gilgil have to go all the way to Nakuru. For you to go to Nakuru to a Huduma Center which you may not necessarily get the service that day, you spend more than the required Kshs4500 in terms of transport to Nakuru and sometimes you end up not getting that clearance. We cannot talk of achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), equal opportunities and sustainable lives, if we do not have our youths being taken care of. This Motion was brought in the 11th Parliament. My problem with Motions is, they are usually swept under the carpet because the implementation is usually influenced by “I can do it if I like or if I do not” attitude. I want to urge the Mover of this Motion to look at the HELB Act and the laws that can be tightened, so that it does not end as a Motion. To the Committee on Implementation, if we are going to speak in vain as a House, because it has happened before, then it beats the logic what the role of Parliament in performing its duties is. Let the Committee on Implementation ensure that this is adhered to. Since we have done it before and we had a Presidential decree on the 30 per cent, we did the 30 per cent law in the last Parliament. Even if the monitoring is ongoing, at least it is in the law as an Act. Let us get it to be implemented. I know all of us have suffered. The enormous request we get in our offices to get people jobs are crazy. We know that everyone has been beaten by this problem. So let us get the solution. Let the Committee on Implementation take it up. As the Government pushes for the Big Four Agenda which include housing, manufacturing and food security, let us ensure we create more opportunities for the youth and this database has to be… we really must embrace technology. I will move a Motion on it later. I shudder when I see the issue of a simple birth certificate taking forever to process. We have 3,000,000 kids who have not been registered because of birth certificates. Why can we not have a system where when you have a birth certificate, by the time you reach 18 years, it is automatic that you have an ID, a voter’s card, and driving license? It is not supposed to be rocket science, let us have this technology being embraced by Government because it is not just by chance that they do not do it. These 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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