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    "id": 968327,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Shiyonga",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13181,
        "legal_name": "Masitsa Naomi Shiyonga",
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    "content": "Clearance required by public bodies on application for jobs in Kenya should be done away with immediately. If you look at the money that these people pay, some of them who are looking for employment are living in poverty. You find that the same people who are being frustrated, when they line up at the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) when they want the certificate of good conduct, many of them do not have transport; they trekked and make that queue to acquire the certificate of good conduct. To make their frustrations worse they do not even have lunch and permanent homes where the headquarters are and yet they are being asked to pay the money. To make the matter worse, there is the issue of experience for the youth who are seeking job opportunities. Experience is another thing that is frustrating our youth. You get old people being recycled to get the employment that these youth are looking for. All the payments demanded by the Government from the youth should be done away with. Experience too should be done away with. This is to motivate the youth so that they look at their country as one that fosters and takes care of them. Madam Temporary Speaker, look at National Youth Service (NYS) where youth they are admitted for free. In fact, they are paid around Kshs500 to get there, but the courses they undertake are free. Why can the Government not adopt the same method and assist these youth so that we can motivate this generation? This generation is suffering. We are educating these children who even go to universities abroad and when they come here, they do not have employment just because they have been asked to get money for payment of some certificates that are not even worth. The youth need to be encouraged; they should be given opportunities. The old people are being given three to four jobs in this Government. Where is the hope of the youth in Kenya? I am talking because I am a person who is representing people in this Republic and somebody who is working. If I am given another job, what am I going to do with that job, yet I already have job? I am talking on behalf of the youth because I am a mother of the youth. If I educate my child today and he or she is told to pay for a certificate of good conduct and yet he or she has never earned a shilling, where does that child get the money? The child will go back to the same parent who educated this child to get the money. I am feeling it. I congratulate Sen. Cherargei because our youth need to be taken care of. We should lay off the old people and take our youth on board. We should give them opportunities to take Kenya to a higher level. We are tired of old people being given jobs while the youth are being frustrated. Thank you. I support the Petition."
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