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    "speaker_name": "Mrs. Shebesh",
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        "legal_name": "Rachel Wambui Shebesh",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, thank you for giving me the opportunity to support this Motion brought by Mr. Chanzu. As I support it, I just want to mention a few issues. In the years before, during the time when we did not have many graduates, companies would actually go to the university and get students before they graduated. Today, we have many people who have graduated and who are selling maize on the roadside, are matatu touts or just lazing around. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, the reason I am speaking about these issues is because I think it is about time the Government spoke with one voice. There is no point that this Ministry goes ahead to do good work in terms of uplifting the standards of the universities, increasing the number of students who are graduating but the same Government within the civil service trains its own people who have been working there for years; they get a degree and are promoted. The moment another position appears that needs a Masters Degree, they go for parallel course and get a Masters Degree, never creating the opportunity for the graduates who these universities are churning out in large numbers. Mr. Minister, it would be good to hear from your Ministry really, when you do this work and then you get a block or a failure because the new graduates cannot get jobs in this country, and they instead become criminals or lay bouts--- Is there no way this Government can talk about honestly for once, implementing the issue of retiring people who have reached retirement age from the Public Service or giving us through the Ministry of Youth, what is the plan of creating new avenues for jobs for the young people of this country? We cannot be talking here about these things in isolation, congratulating you and knowing very well that at the end of the day, you will not have reached the goals for which we intend by giving these loans that we are giving. Anyway, how do you expect to collect the money that these students have been given because you can only collect from those who are working so that you can be able to increase your money? Where will you get it from that man who is a tout or that one who has decided to become a shoe shiner simply because they have no alternative? Really, the point I want to put across is that the Government needs to work on issues of the youth together, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Public Service, in terms of jobs and I am sure, many other Ministries that you can think about but please work in tandem so that we do not do zero work. So that we do not do work that is called zero sum because you do good work but it does not translate at the end of the day, to jobs and sustainability for the young people of this country--- I beg to support."
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