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    "id": 838582,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/838582/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ndhiwa, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Martin Owino",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Martin Peters Owino",
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    "content": "When there is unemployment of this magnitude among the youths, it brings down the income, the living standard declines, the working power of the nation declines and revenue and productivity go down. These are the years where production of the country depends on. The United Nations (UN) explains this as between 15 and 24 years, but we are even spanning now to the senior youth which is even beyond 35. Somebody finishes college and he takes many years before he gets a job. When they fall into the frustration domain, crime starts. Poverty is in the highest level because these people are not absorbed into the work domain. There is no transfer of skills. When you finish pursuing education, you need to be engaged in order to maintain that. That is also going down the valley. This will have a domino effect. If we are not careful on this, we may end up in a recession because we are not tapping into the productivity domain of those people. For example, we are talking about the dual highway to Mombasa which will cost Kshs300 billion. If we invest that money, even Kshs1 billion per constituency to build micro- industries to create jobs for those people, we would improve lives and taxes. I said that this is a productive age. If you engage them in work, they will pay taxes."
}