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    "id": 834037,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/834037/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kilifi North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Owen Baya",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13373,
        "legal_name": "Owen Yaa Baya",
        "slug": "owen-yaa-baya"
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    "content": "They leave school even at Standard Eight to start looking for work. Therefore, they add to the percentage of unemployed. There are youth in this country who should not be looking for employment but pursuing education. Therefore, we will remove a huge chunk to ensure that Government plans to improve the transition rate from high school to university and from primary school to high school are implemented. That way, we will reduce the number of youths who become delinquent in this country. Creating a youth fund is a very political way of trying to solve the youth problem. Developed countries, which have created jobs, look at a holistic approach to the economy and labour and say that they need to put more youth in employment instead of giving them money for things that they are not even able to do at that age. We need to ensure that we have a marshal plan for the youth. As we grow the economy, we should be able to grow the number of jobs. The Kenyan economy is not creating jobs and that is where the problem is. Young people need to finish university and college and go into employment. I want to give you a few examples. At the Coast, we have a huge resource in tourism, but today, decline in the tourism sector has forced many young people to be jobless. Many people have been pushed out of their jobs because there is no deliberate investment by the Government in tourism. Therefore, you have almost a Kshs5 trillion economy at the Coast which is dead because there has not been proper planning on how to grow the tourism sector. If the sector is grown, I can tell you that each year, we will put over 500,000 on jobs."
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