Cecily Mbarire

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• 12 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: to deal with unemployment. I personally had issues with a manifesto stating that we shall create one million jobs per year. Personally, I was keen on knowing how the one million jobs would be created. I think it is up to us, as hon. Members, to start looking for avenues of ensuring that those jobs are created. If we are saying that the youth fund has not achieved its intended purpose, then there is need to restructure the youth fund so that it becomes useful to the youth in Nairobi as well as to those in the village. Since we ... view
• 12 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: to deal with unemployment. I personally had issues with a manifesto stating that we shall create one million jobs per year. Personally, I was keen on knowing how the one million jobs would be created. I think it is up to us, as hon. Members, to start looking for avenues of ensuring that those jobs are created. If we are saying that the youth fund has not achieved its intended purpose, then there is need to restructure the youth fund so that it becomes useful to the youth in Nairobi as well as to those in the village. Since we ... view
• 12 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: Therefore, the restructuring of the youth fund must be aimed at ensuring that once they access Government business, they can access credit and pay after they have been paid by the Government so that an LPO should stand as a guarantee for your credit as a young person. I think it is important that the restructuring of the youth fund should be along constituency and county lines. It is important if hon. Members would be given the power to oversee the management of the youth fund because we work directly with young people, we know what their issues are and ... view
• 12 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: Therefore, the restructuring of the youth fund must be aimed at ensuring that once they access Government business, they can access credit and pay after they have been paid by the Government so that an LPO should stand as a guarantee for your credit as a young person. I think it is important that the restructuring of the youth fund should be along constituency and county lines. It is important if hon. Members would be given the power to oversee the management of the youth fund because we work directly with young people, we know what their issues are and ... view
• 12 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: Even as we do that, I think it is important to realize and accept that there are many young people whose certificates are still in secondary schools because the parents could not clear the school fees so that they could access the certificates and get basic skills in, maybe, carpentry, masonry and things like that in polytechnics. As a House, we need to seriously ask this Government to waive the fee balances and make certificates available to young people so that they can access skills at polytechnics level and, therefore, access the youth fund. This is because the youth fund ... view
• 12 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: Even as we do that, I think it is important to realize and accept that there are many young people whose certificates are still in secondary schools because the parents could not clear the school fees so that they could access the certificates and get basic skills in, maybe, carpentry, masonry and things like that in polytechnics. As a House, we need to seriously ask this Government to waive the fee balances and make certificates available to young people so that they can access skills at polytechnics level and, therefore, access the youth fund. This is because the youth fund ... view
• 12 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: person. We must build entrepreneurial skills in young people so that they can begin business. I look forward to working with the youth in my constituency. I am sure many hon. Members appreciate the burden we have of young people. They are all asking for jobs from us every single day through SMS. They come to us with their certificates and CVs and the time is up for us to ensure that they have a means of livelihood; ensure that they are able to live with dignity like young men and women and, therefore, get them out of crime and ... view
• 12 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: person. We must build entrepreneurial skills in young people so that they can begin business. I look forward to working with the youth in my constituency. I am sure many hon. Members appreciate the burden we have of young people. They are all asking for jobs from us every single day through SMS. They come to us with their certificates and CVs and the time is up for us to ensure that they have a means of livelihood; ensure that they are able to live with dignity like young men and women and, therefore, get them out of crime and ... view
• 12 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: With those many or few remarks, I beg to support. view
• 12 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: With those many or few remarks, I beg to support. view