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    "id": 978255,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kisauni, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Mbogo Ali",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13383,
        "legal_name": "Ali Menza Mbogo",
        "slug": "ali-menza-mbogo"
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, this country is not a manufacturing nation. It is an agrarian nation, but we can revitalise it if we focus to empower the youth whereby funding and everything else can be provided to them so that they can start their own businesses. My colleague, Hon. Owen Baya, talked about the youth business leaders like what is happening in the United States of America (USA). These are the things that need to be initiated and actualised because we know that this country does not have proper plans. In fact, we do not have oil in this country. We just discovered oil the other day in Turkana, but still we do not have a refinery there. We are just transporting that oil via the road network to Mombasa and the same oil is exported to other countries. We do not see value addition on that oil which could have actually created employment for the many youth of this country. There is serious need for us, Members, to consider how best we can bring resources together and make sure that this 73 per cent of the Kenyan population is taken care of. We started the Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVETs) institutions which the law is very clear on that they are supposed to be devolved to every constituency, but there is a lot of politics in them. Today, there are quite a number of constituencies in this country that have not benefited from the TVETs which are supposed to provide sound training in technical skills. We know that if our youth are trained properly, this country can become a major exporter of skills to many parts of the world. If these youth are trained, we can have a serious and vibrant manpower out of this country. It is my wish that Hon. Gideon Keter seriously takes into consideration the issues that we have raised, for instance, they should not only reduce the membership of the Council from 24 to 10 at the national level, but also cascade downwards to the constituency level. These members have to be elected competitively. They should not be spoon-fed or nominated to these positions. The moment you know that you are nominated, basically, somebody is pulling the strings for you. He is actually controlling you because you are there not by your own effort, but somebody has just planted you there. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, with those few remarks, I fully support the Bill. Thank you."
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