Johnson Arthur Sakaja

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 4441 to 4450 of 5036.

• 17 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: At the outset, I want to state very clearly that this Bill, by itself, will not create jobs. The purpose of this Bill is to reform the labour market so that every young person in our country has an equal opportunity to access existing opportunities. Through this authority and by organizing employment in this country, we can look for many of these opportunities for our young people in other parts of the world. There are certain strategies that have been set out by the Ministry of Labour, Social Security and Services to address the issue of unemployment. There is Sessional ... view
• 17 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: think of how to go to Eldoret, Kitale or Nairobi to apply for a job or to access a newspaper. He will just go to the constituency office in Lokichar or to the county office in Turkana or even at a view
• 17 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: Centre, give his details and get into a national database where there will be free opportunity for any of those young people to access employment. view
• 17 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: I see there has been a change of Chair; not in the gender of the Speaker but in the person sitting on the Chair. view
• 17 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: I thought I was just starting to move. view
• 17 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. By creating a database and having it in every part of the country, the first thing we will have done is to equalise opportunities for all our young people wherever they are and whatever social class they belong to, based on their merit. The job centres will also play a second role. When a young person walks through the doors of that job centre, there will be counsellors and staff who are well-versed with the labour market trends and who can see what that young person needs. Very many of our young people do ... view
• 17 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: have representatives from the Commission for University Education (CUE) and the Federation of Kenya Employers (FKE). Based on the data that will be coming out--- Everybody knows that there is a very poor matching of the skills being taught at our institutions of higher learning with the needs in the market. What we are doing in many of our universities and colleges is postponing the unemployment of very many young people. There are very many young people studying courses I will not name that have no market value. So, that body will be able to even propose changes in curriculum ... view
• 17 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: On international best practices - I will give an example - if you look at Peru, it has a youth-targeted employment programme, just like this one, with job centres all over, that offers entrepreneurship skills, basic training on managerial skills, development of business plans, accounting, internship programmes and provision of start-up loans. Bulgaria has something similar, and if I had time I would go into details of this. view
• 17 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, let me go on to what else the Bill provides for. As I was talking about skills matching, if you look at Sessional Paper--- I am glad that the Chairman is here; I want him to understand that the Bill is actually drawn from policy. Many times we bring Bills here that do not have a linkage with the policy of the Government. If you look at Sessional Paper No.4 on Employment Policy and Strategy for Kenya, it says that in Kenya there exists limited linkages and collaboration between education, training institutions and industry. This is ... view
• 17 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: Another important component in Part VI of this Bill is internships. Many of our young people are not able to get an opportunity to get hands-on work experience through internships. Maybe when you were in university - I suspect you were there earlier than me - you had an opportunity to get industrial attachment, internship, or to work in a law firm while you were still in school. Many of those in my generation have not had that opportunity because no one wants to take you because they say you must have experience; if, by chance, they take you, they ... view