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    "id": 830898,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/830898/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ugenya, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Christopher Karani",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Christopher Odhiambo Karani",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity. I rise to support this Motion. We have to agree that all along in this country, our education system has largely been formal. The question we should ask ourselves is: Where do most of our youth who cannot afford to get to O-level or higher go to? You will find that most of our youth at the constituencies have a lot of experience but when it comes to pay, they normally get low wages because of lack of recognition. Most of the employers whenever they want to employ ask for papers. Some of those youth do not have papers not because they like but because some of them could not afford to pay school fees. Some of them are orphans while some are unable to get those papers. By coming up with those training and certification centres, we are doing well for our youth. When you go to the villages, you will find that even when we are giving tenders to our youth, we ask where their papers are. They go to third parties who help them with papers that they use to get tenders from constituency or county offices. It is high time the Government came up with this programme and we ensure that each and every constituency within this country has a certification training centre. That is so that those youths can have papers to help them. By giving those youths certification or this training system, we will be motivating them because most of them are…"
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