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    "id": 978118,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gideon Keter",
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    "content": "The Third Schedule of the Bill provides for the selection, nomination or election of nominees at the county level. It provides that each selection, nomination or election panel at the county level shall, within seven days of its convening, invite applications from qualified persons and publish the names and qualifications of all applicants in the Kenya Gazette and the Ministry’s website. The panel shall also consider the applications, interviews and shortlist two persons being male and female qualified for appointment as members of the Council and shall forward the names of the shortlisted persons to the Cabinet Secretary who shall within seven days in receipt of the names forwarded by the Panel, appoint the members to the Council. Clause 4 of the Bill provides for the amendment of Section 6 of the National Youth Council Act of 2009 by substituting the terms “sub-location” with the words “as per the current Constitution”. The enactment of the Bill shall not occasion an additional expenditure of public funds. As I conclude, our young people in this country are faced with numerous challenges when they are trying to ensure that their lives are in order straight from educational institutions. Recently, I over-heard the Cabinet Secretary in charge of Education pushing for the closure of satellite campuses and yet, as a House, we have been struggling to see that access to education is done for our convenience from our counties. Not all young people and parents have the ability to pay for studies at Kenyatta University or University of Nairobi. The Cabinet Secretary should focus on how to equip those institutions with quality education so that our parents or Kenyan citizens are able to access education from wherever they are. There is high red tape when it comes to employment. A young person seeking for a job is asked to provide so many documents. This alone does not cure the challenges of unemployment. For example, last year, the Public Service Commission (PSC) employed 1,800 people in a whole year - a whole Government institution in charge of employment employing just 1,800 people. From the census, we saw the population of young people being at 35.1 million out of 47.6 million. That alone is around 75.1 per cent of the total population. Unemployment is the biggest challenge any young person is facing in the country right now. As a Government, we are doing very little to ensure that those young people have an opportunity to improve their own lives. You find a student who has just cleared Form IV being denied a certificate to join a Technical Training Institute (TTI) at the county level. All these are hindrances to development of a young person. I am asking this House to support the development of the National Youth Council so that within the Government, we have a body that is going to advance the voice of the youth. I beg to move this Bill and request Hon. David Ochieng’ to second."
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