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    "id": 851337,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Molo, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kuria Kimani",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13435,
        "legal_name": "Francis Kuria Kimani",
        "slug": "francis-kuria-kimani"
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    "content": "I am very excited at how the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill clearly defines who a local contractor is. There has been a lot of debate about inclusion of Chinese contractors in this country. But the Bill now defines who exactly a local contractor is. It even says that whoever purports or attempts to incorporate or register themselves as local contractors when they are not will be punished. We are losing a lot of business, jobs and contracts to people from China, Japan and Asian countries that would have been done by our youth. On Micro and Small Enterprises, if there is anything that is going to save our young people from unemployment, it is entrepreneurship in agribusiness. It is about the small jobs of selling second hand clothes in streets or wherever. But, this is one industry that everyone wants to cripple. None of the county governments has designated places for people to sell small items. Where they set for them to sell, are places where they cannot be accessed. So, why not amend the law so that we have our youth doing business in our cities in the evening or at night? We claim that we create markets for them but we allocate them places where they can hardly access people to buy the goods they sell. Section 46 talks about TVETs. The Kenya Certificates of Secondary Examination (KCSE) is underway in the country. We have deployed all our security agents to man these examinations to a point we may call it militarisation of examination. We have over-emphasised the importance of getting good grades of “A”, “B” or “C” in the examination. It is for that reason you find increased cases of mental health. Young people are in depression because when they sit for KCSE, they know that if they do not score an “A” and to join university, their lives are more or less doomed. The TVETs address that by saying that even if one gets “D” grade, it does not mean that they cannot do anything. One can go to the TVETs and train in tailoring, masonry or carpentry and still be somebody important in the country. There has been debate about qualifications Members of Parliament or Members of County Assemblies should have. If you study, you will find out that someone who is well educated is a better leader or legislator than one who is not. There is even research to support this. I am very impressed that we have put emphasis on TVETs. I hope we, as Members of Parliament, will put more of NG-CDF into not just giving bursaries to university students but also using the money to pay for our youth to go for tailoring or learn skills. The Crops Act of 2016, talks about value addition of our agricultural products. Even when we talk about two of the Big Four Agenda: food security and manufacturing, we are looking at doing many big things when we can construct a cold store in Molo for storage of the potatoes that are in surplus production and make crisps and other value addition products from them. This piece of legislation, I hope, is going to be implemented to the letter so that we have 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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