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    "content": "and Senators want answers because we all live in Nairobi. I will give my position on these issues next week on the Floor of the Senate. As I move on to consume my entire space of time, I want to talk about the National Employment Authority (NEA). The President touched on it without necessarily mentioning it by name. He touched on the issue of engaging our young people. We have a law in this country which provides a platform through which every young person, from Kondele where you come from or Ihura where Sen. Kang’ata is from and Nyakoe where Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri is from, can have the same opportunity to get a job in this country. They should be able to get onto the national database, so that when any national or county body is hiring, they will first go there and look at merit. It should not be based on whether someone’s name is Mogaka, Njoroge or Omondi. Based on merit, someone should be able to get a job. Madam Temporary Speaker, it also provides that every public institution that is publicly funded must provide a certain number of internships for our young people in colleges and universities. It also provides that we shall have a system through which the educators, who include universities and technical training institutions, together with the Commission for University Education (CUE), the Kenya Association of Manufacturers (KAM) and the Federation of Kenya Employers (FKE) can sit together to determine what courses are being offered in our universities. This will ensure we do not teach irrelevant courses that will postpone the employment of our young people. Madam Temporary Speaker, it is true that jobs are created as a subsequent of the growth of the economy. However, as the Chairperson of the Committee on Labour and Social Welfare, I appeal to the Cabinet Secretary for Labour, Social Security and Services to actualize the NEA. We have our young girls who are being defiled in Saudi Arabia and in the Middle East countries. This will be taken care of by that Authority. We have young people who do not know where to start when they clear school and their fathers cannot afford newspapers. They go back to the village after finishing university. How will they get the same chance of getting a job as your son or a young person in this City? Madam Temporary Speaker, that is my final appeal and I hope that it will be taken into consideration. If not, we will play our oversight role here by summoning them. Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I will say more next week when I give the state of Nairobi address."
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