{"id":847136,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/847136/?format=json","text_counter":291,"type":"other","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"THAT, aware that Seventy-five per cent of Kenya’s population is under 35 years of age and that, overall unemployment among youth is at 55 percent; cognisant of the Government’s plan in the Big Four Agenda aimed at creating 1.3 million manufacturing jobs by 2022; appreciating that Article 260 of the Constitution of Kenya and the Public Finance Management Act (National Government Affirmative Action Fund) Regulations, 2016 supports the affirmative action for the youth; aware that in the Appropriation Act, 2018, youth empowerment programme was only allocated a total sum of Kshs.7,352,220,651; this House urges that the Government declares youth unemployment as a national disaster and further establishes a National Youth Fund of at least 5 percent of the national revenue collected each year to be administered by an Authority or Commission for purpose of youth empowerment and employment."}