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    "id": 94757,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kabando wa Kabando",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports",
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        "legal_name": "Kabando wa Kabando",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have a balance of three minutes. I will dwell on the need to emphasis on this Report. They have mentioned about basic education and the relevant Ministry picking up on elevating basic education to Form Four. This is because at Standard Eight, it is really not a good intervention for even joining the national or local polytechnics which are now introducing new curriculum which is testable by the Kenya National Examinations Council. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, there is need for the Minister for Finance to deal with the issue of family property, so that it is not dominated by a monopoly and when disaster happens by way of death there is no transition of that property. We find many families with millions of investments getting lost. There is need to gazette the rules that will govern the over the counter-trading, so that even small investments, hotels and residential buildings in rural townships are actually appropriated and invitations for competitive partnerships made in order to add value. I want to inform this House that we are doing some other interventions, for instance, the peace caravans happening in the areas of Laikipia and Samburu in order for the morans who are being targetted for peace promotion to be considered as a special category for adaption in the National Youth Service and also improvement of the Kazi kwa Vijana Programme, so that relevant Ministries are made to undertake their programmes through the designed youth officers in the districts. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the 10 per cent contracts is also another way to ensure that the youth participate in large contracts that are formal in partnership with qualified professionals. Also, the cultural interventions are encouraging in various communities from the west, east, central to the coast, where elders are coming together in order to inculcate responsible and positive cultural practices that will ensure that responsibility particularly among male youth, becomes an advantage for the people that live in those areas. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, finally, taking pride in the passage of the new Constitution, the very fact that we are dealing with issues of corruption, let us agree that many people have gone into crime. I have just come from my constituency to bury a young teacher who got employed just three months ago. In fact, he was still on probation. He died out of alcohol consumption. There is another one who was in Form Three who died because of lack of facilities at the Kenyatta National Hospital. They could not intervene in time. So, in a day we are burying many youths like I have done today, because of the disadvantage coming from the exclusive ownership of property in this country. The very fact that the passage of the Constitution will deal firmly with the question of integrity in leadership, corruption in public and private service is a way that will give us light and assure that as we move forward, we will participate in more inclusive ways. That means that even property ownership, award and merit in jobs and other engagements will be recognized. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to support this very timely Report and congratulate hon. Kioni for the very bold and brilliant intervention."
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