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    "id": 838553,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/838553/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mathare, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Anthony Oluoch",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Tom Oluoch",
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    "content": "In the last six months alone, we have lost Kshs35 billion in estimate tax revenue that could have been collected through what has now become the sugar importation scandal. We lost close to Kshs9 billion in the National Youth Service II in the last six months alone. We have also lost about Kshs3.5 billion in the Ruaraka scandal. In the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR), it is said that we have lost close to about Kshs2 billion due to fake land compensation. Lastly on this question, the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) through uncollected taxes and by closing the tax gaps, we have lost close to about Kshs100 billion. So, yes we can find money to be able to fund a statutory fund for the youth and be able to give gainful employment to the youth as opposed to the tokenism that we give to the youth through the Uwezo Fund and the other funds. The other issue that I wanted us to address and which I want to persuade the Members to find is that through the Uwezo Fund, when you tell youth in Mathare, Ruaraka, Kibra, Kuria and Dagoretti that they need security and title deeds in order to access the Youth Enterprise Development Fund or to be able to access the Uwezo Fund, where is my Mathare youths, who perhaps did not go to class eight or dropped at Four, going to get that? We have a model in the NG-CDF where we have used the grant system. We know that every year you have 100 or 106 million. You have measurable things that can be done. People can come back and find a secondary school, dispensary or road. I am trying to persuade this House that when this is accepted, this fund should be used as a grant to be able to create tertiary institutions where we can train our youths in skills. This is because not everybody can get into white collar jobs. We train our youths in mechanics. Train them to be engineers, carpenters or electricians and at the end of that three or six months training, we give them a start-up kit and tell them: “Take this, go and start a garage or workshop.” Over an affirmative period of 10 years, we will be able to have addressed the question of youth unemployment. We have seen circumstances where the Government has declared anything a national disaster. When we did that with HIV/AIDS more than two decades ago, all Government resources, energies and synergies including international partners were tailored and trained towards the scourge of HIV/AIDS. It was declared a national disaster and today we have other communicable and lifestyle diseases like cancer and others which have now overtaken HIV/AIDS because we declared it a national disaster. I urge that we find that it is necessary that we declare this a national disaster. As my time runs out, I want to say that there are various pieces of legislation none of which speaks to the other. We have the National Youth Act which I will be proposing that we repeal. We have the Sports Act which I will be proposing we amend at Sections 12 to 29 to remove the Sports Fund and bring it into this. We have the Social Assistance Act which I will be trying to persuade this House that puts the youth on some kind of tokenism and Panadol which does not assist them. We have other pieces of legislation and in the end I will be coming up…"
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