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    "speaker_name": "Bumula, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Mwambu Mabongah",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Wekesa Mwambu Mabonga",
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    "content": "Motion is important and timely. In the interest of time because there is a lot of interest in this, I will try as much as I can to summarise what I have. In this era of unemployment, this is one of the best solutions we can provide for society today. You will agree with me that everyone in the universe has talents. Most talents are destroyed at the development stage for young people. This stage is when a person is just transiting from high school to college. The percentage of KCSE candidates who finish high school and join university is below 20. If you ask the Government today - through the Ministry - to give you the statistics of where the remaining masses go, they cannot account for them. This could be the best of it all. I was just trying to make a comparison with Finland. The technical approach of skills is done right from kindergarten all the way to university. It is very easy for students and young people to pick what they want at a very early stage. We hope the Government will implement this Motion. We urge Hon. Munene to bring it as a Bill so that we can enforce this. Most of the risks in the business world today are because of the masses that are wasted after Form IV. If you go to the village today, you can count the people who are in college. There are many risks for the majority of Form IV leavers who do not qualify to go to university or technical colleges. As the Member said, I can assure you that technical courses make a person more productive. I have taken a few boys to technical colleges. Those are people who have been looking for jobs at my place every day. You realise that within a couple of years or even one year, a person becomes an employer. We request the county government to get seriously involved in vocational training. I am yet to hear a serious county government which has come up with a model vocational training which can supplement the technical courses we have. If the county government could be serious with even one vocational training centre in each county, those young boys and girls who are loitering in the village could be somewhere doing something. Whenever you interact with young people, you are shocked to realise that most of them are strangers to their own lives. This is a very important Motion that will enable young people to restore hope in their lives. We should work on this to ensure that a wide range of course are offered in some of those technical or vocational training. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, you happen to come from the region I come from. You will be surprised to know that every day, young people are lining up in your home to ask for assistance. At times, they ask for financial assistance. If those courses can be introduced in vocational training, all the young people below 30 years would be absorbed and be very effective in the society. The Kshs30,000 supplementary scholarships that the Government is giving to the technical students who are joining is not enough. This House should come up with a way of getting bursaries for those young people so that the 100 per cent from high school to vocational training or other colleges is not just like the one from primary to secondary school. It is not a matter of quantity. We want to look at the quality. I urge the county governments to seriously engage the National Youth Service (NYS) which has a lot of equipment that is just being wasted. If you pass through Turbo, you will realise that most of the equipment is just lying there. Is there a way through this Motion? The MP should come up with proposals to ensure that most of that equipment is used to ensure that our young people are equipped and become productive in the society. In the interest of time and a lot of interest in this Motion, I appreciate you for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this important Motion. I support the Motion. 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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