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    "id": 838625,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Vihiga CWR, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Beatrice Adagala",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13280,
        "legal_name": "Beatrice Kahai Adagala",
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    "content": "This is a noble idea because the whole country is in a crisis of youth unemployment. When there is a job opportunity, conditions are set for the youths. When a youth goes for a job interview, they meet unconducive conditions that are required before they are employed. One, they are asked to give their work experience. This is not correct. Where would the youths who are straight from school get work for them to get the required experience? The other thing that was pressing me so much is asking the youth to pay money so that they are cleared by the CRB, HELB and for Certificate of Good Conduct. Those levies are charged to the youths who are coming straight from college or have never been employed anywhere. It is cumbersome. You, therefore, find that youths are frustrated; they cannot be employed because of the strings attached on some of those employments. There is an outcry by the youth that the old are being recycled for the jobs and making them not to have anything to do or to support them in their endeavours. As much as we have put up middle level colleges like the polytechnics and the rest, they will still be asked to pay money for HELB for them to be cleared to get employment somewhere. When you look at this Motion by Hon. Oluoch, I feel that if the fund can be established, it will become like the NG-CDF. Arrangements will be made so that once some of those youths come out of TVETS and universities they can be innovators or start small businesses and companies where they can employ others. They will be able to exercise what they have learnt from the colleges. The existing youth funds also have strings attached, which is making the youth to shy away from them. Once the national youth fund is established and the rules and mechanisms are put in place, the youths will be able to acquire the funds and assist them to come up with small industries and employ other youths. Somebody was talking of the Big Four Agenda. The youth are a time bomb in waiting and, therefore, the fund should be set up so that it can assist them instead of idling. We have seen so many youths out there engaging in drugs because of The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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