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1Motion on youth affairs in Nyandarua County by Hon. Rebecca Nyangati Weru

WEDNESDAY 23RD JULY, 2014

REPUBLIC OF KENYA

NYANDARUA COUNTYASSEMBLY

1st ASSEMBLY-2nd SESSION

OFFICIAL HANSARD REPORT

The Hon. Speaker on the chair

2.30 pm

Prayers

Speaker: First order

Clerk:Administration of oath. Mr. Speaker, we don’t have administration of oath.

Speaker: Next.

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Clerk: Communication from the chair.

Speaker: Honorable members I wish to communicate the receipt of a bill for introduction to the

County Assembly of Nyandarua. It was received by the office of the speaker yesterday Tuesday

the 23rd day of July, 2014. That is the Nyandarua County Trade Fund Bill, 2014. The same will

be allocated time for tabling in this assembly and for its first reading by the House Business

Committee.Next.

Clerk: Messages, Mr. Speaker we do not have any messages.

Speaker: Next.

Clerk: Petitions, We do not have any petitions.

Speaker: Next.

Clerk: Papers, Report on benchmarking by the committee on Delegated County Legislations by

Hon. Peter Kamoche.

Speaker: Yes chairman committee on Delegated County Legislations.

Hon. Kamoche: Thank you Mr. Speaker sir, I beg to table the report of the committee on

Delegated County Legislations on benchmarking done in Nyeri and Meru County. I now table

the report with the clerk.



Speaker: The report, Honorable members is duly tabled and received by this House. I will leave

it to the House Business committee, chairman committee on Delegated County Legislations, to

allocate you time in the course of next week.

Clerk: Notices of motion. Mr. Speaker Sir, we have two notices of motion one by Hon. Kimani

Njiraini.

Speaker: Member for Kaimbaga, Hon. Kimani Njiraini.

Hon. Njiraini: Thank you Mr. Speaker sir, we are happy to see you back to Kenya. I beg to give

notice of the following motion.

Aware of the emergent dispute involving the proprietorship of the land Reference Nyandarua/

Ol’kalou Salient 117 and 118 (Gichugo Trading Centre) previously reserved as a trading centre,

further aware that the plots have been licensed to the members of the public of the Gichugo

Trading Centre by the defunct Ol’kalou town council. Further aware that the said plots have been

allocated to two individual to the exclusion of the licensees, that is, the members of the public of

Gichugo Trading Centre.

Concerned that the said licensees have developed the area and base their mean of livelihood

here. Further concernedof the disruption of these people’s way of life and further concerned of

the need to resolve the heightening dispute between the former employees and the new

titleholders.



I urge this House do resolve that the ownership of the land be investigated and appropriate action

be taken to establish the proprietorship of the said land and further appropriate measures be put

in place to safeguard the interest of the members of the public who had the land licensed to them.

Speaker: Thank you member for Kaimbaga. I am also going to refer this matter to the House

Business committee to get time for the motion in the course of next week. Resume your seat

member for Kaimbaga. Next.

Clerk: There is another notice of motion by Hon. Kimani Njiraini.

Speaker: Hon. Kimani Njiraini member for Kaimbaga.

Hon. Njiraini: Thank you Mr. Speaker sir, I was thinking I would give the two notices at a go.

But I won’t give them at the same time. I will follow the sequence of the order paper.Mr.

Speaker sir I beg to give notice of the following motion: sorry.

Speaker: The motion is fully done on the order paper. Clerk you can give him an order paper.

Hon. Njiraini: Thank you. Mr. Speaker sir, I beg to give notice of the following motion:

That aware of the dumping of waste matter at Mihiga Trading Centre which has proposed but

undeveloped sewerage management and disposal unit as no dumping pits nor sewerage beds

have been put in place. Further aware that the matterfrom the dump is flowing to Karau River

and causing serious environmental hazards to the consumers of water from Karau River to

themselves and to their animals.



Concerned of the need to protect the consumers of the water from the Karau River and further

concerned of the need to develop the sewerage and waste disposal units at Mahinga trading

centre;

I urge this House to resolve that the issue of waste disposal and management at the centre to curb

the flow and seepage to Karau River. I further urge that the House restricts further dumping of

waste in the site until such a time as the pits and sewerage beds have been put in place toalleviate

the escalation of further hazards to the people, animals and environment. Thank you Mr. Speaker

sir.

Mr. Speaker sir I beg to give notice of the following motion:

Speaker: Member for Kaimbaga, I will also refer that matter to the House Business Committee

to allocate time in the course of the next time when you can move that motion. Next order.

Clerk: Statements. Mr. Speaker we don’t have statements today.

Speaker: I think I can see another notice of motion. Ok. That is a motion. Next order.

Clerk: Motions .Mr. Speaker we have a motion by Hon. Rebeccah Nyangati.

Hon. Nyagati: Thank you Mr. Speaker sir. Mr. Speaker sir I beg to move the following motion

that:

Aware that the youths in Nyandarua County compose of 25% of the county population and

aware that 23% of the youths are jobless and have lacked adequate opportunities for jobs and



wealth creation. Concerned of the high level of rampant crime, drug abuse and other social vices

arising fromunemployment of the youths.Further concerned of the need to economically

empower the youth through wealth creation and job opportunities.

I urge this house to ensure that the county policy framework is formulated and implemented

and the bill be published for the purpose to ensure that the youths benefit from county

government projects and a mandatory adequate budgetary allocation to at least five

programmes involving the youths in all ministerial operations .

Understanding that, youth is not devolved. We are very much concerned with empowering the

youths. As the education committee we feel that we need to look at other areas where the youths

can benefit. I urge this house to make sure that a youth policy is fastened. Three to four months

ago we come up with a youth policy. We were intending to have a youth’s bill. Right now we

don’t have the youth policy as it is held up in the executive.

I wish for a situation where the youths will be classified into groups. We classify the youths

according to their talents and interests of an individual. For long we have been classifying the

youths to be those aged18-35years. We have been putting this entire people in one basket. We

have heard of people who have the will to support the youths but they have been saying that we

have them work out there as casual workers. We have involved the youths only in the odd jobs.

We can reclassify the youths and come up with a group of those who have income. I feel that

these youths who have income should be supported to have SACCOs and try to save what they



have. The other group is the educated youths. They have gone to colleges and universities. They

have careers. These are the people who are looking for the jobs. We should make sure that 30%

of the people employed in this county are the youths. The other group is the form four leavers.

My feeling is; this people should be offered managerial skills and create various projects for

them. The other group is the youths in the polytechnics. From the constitution, we understand

that there are various parts of the youth that have been devolved that is the polytechnics and the

sports. The youths centers have not been devolved and they still belong to the national

government.

I feel that for the youths in the polytechnics we can empower them by offering them technical

skills. I would wish to see a situation where we could support the youths and provide them with

law materials. Create some warehouses for the in our County and the product we will have for

them will be sold from the county government. We can have a common warehouse where we

will do all this things. We market them within the county and outside. We can also have

competition within the polytechnics in the county.

The other group is the sport men and women. I am very happy. We had a report from the CEC

education, stating that: we should have the county teams in our county. That is a very good thing.

A very good start because we are going to start afresh to indentify the individuals who have the

talents. Who have the interest for sport and nature them for one or years. These people will go

out there and have competition with other counties. They are going to have a career and a

permanent one in that case.



We have the issue of tenders and I wish it is captured in the youth bill: Where the 30% will be

for the youths and the women. It is important to say in this House even if 30% of the tenders are

being advertised for the youths, we are not sure whether the people who are being advertised to

are the people who are benefiting from it. We find that the people who are rich are the ones who

are coming up with companies and business names, or they take advantage of the youths. They

use another name for the youths and they apply for the tenders. The other thing I would wish this

House would do, we have the sectoral committees: agriculture, education and ICT and we have

the departments in the executive that stands for all this.

I wish to see a situation where we see the relevant department of the executive indentifying five

projects for the youths. They should include them in their budget. It should be mandatory that

every sectoral department indentify five projects for the youths and include it in their budget. If a

ministry like agriculture, cooperative and everything has not included five projects for the

youths. Their budget should not be approved. Why am I saying so? If the youth is not devolved,

how will we be able to empower the youths on the ground.

I would wish to see a situation where in a department like agriculture reach a situation where

they will indentify something like fisheries, bee keeping among others. They have those projects

for the youths before the budget is passed. This way they will be able to identify group and

support them. Then in the next budget they are not to support the same group but they will look

for another specific group and support it.



If we look at the department of education, Understanding that the youths’ centres have not been

devolved, they belong to the national government and we cannot interfere with something that

belongs to the national government. I would wish to see a situation where we can come up with

youth centres and call them the community centers. We can introduce some things like sports

and put them in the education department. In cooperatives, we should have SACCOs for the

youths. In ICT we can create resource centers in every sub county and the youths will have

somewhere they will train on IT. That is my feeling Mr. Speaker sir. I call upon Hon. Ngotho to

second.

Speaker: Member for Karau.

Hon. Ngotho: Thank you Mr. Speaker sir, I wish to second the motion that has been moved by

Hon. Nyangati the vice chair ICT and also a member of the committee on education and social

services. I don’t think that I have to say much as she has exploited much about the youths. She

has discussed it in length. Maybe as I second. Let me state that the simplest group to deal with is

the youth and also the most difficult group to deal with is the same, youth. The approach in

which you deal with the youth is what will tell you whether you will walk together or they will

work against you. How do you put them together? That is the basic thing. The most important

thing is that we have to register youth groups. Let youth groups be registered. The groups must

have common interest. There is that tendency during election campaigns where politicians who

want to create a political mileage tend to register youth groups. That is not the way forward. If



there are youths dealing with agriculture, let them get registered. If there are youths who want to

give the cleaning services let them be registered.

Most of the projects in Gatanga constituency formerly lead by Peter Kenneth are done by the

youths. The youths have been empowered. They do not have to beg in the streets for handouts. A

very good example to us is Nakuru County. I think the education committee that is handling the

matters of youths can go and visit Nakuru County. David Gakaria, the current MP has done very

well for the youths; in sports, he has empowered them in activities that are economically viable.

They are the ones who are doing the cleaning of the toilets and planting trees in Nakuru town.

They have sheds where they sell most of the goods. Show them the way and they will follow that

way.

In our CIDP, we had said that in every ward by the end of the last fiscal year must have a

polytechnic. That is not what is on the ground. In as much as we might have a very good policy

as she is asking for, everything depends on implementation. We have no polytechnics especially

in my ward, I don’t have a polytechnic so most of the students, when they finish form four they

have nowhere to go. Most of them are wasted. The wastage rate in Nyandarua County is 80%.

These are children who are not able to join universities. In fact not even universities, any grade

below C+ is what we call wastage in education. This is 80%. We ask ourselves where these

numbers of children go to. We also had bursaries for the county. That is a good path towards

empowering our children, but over one year is gone and nothing much has happened. The

disbursement of even 10% has not been done. We gave them three hundred thousand shillings



per ward. The seven million is still in coffers. Will it be a tendency now that when we come to

the end of this fiscal year we use the funds for the last year? We get students in our offices

asking for bursaries. We need to have a person to know these children are not in school. They

need to be in school.

In the budget from the CEC education, he had suggested a revolving fund. This is a secret to help

these children. We have a revolving fund in the national government. Under fourth schedule, the

youth is not devolved. It is not either in the national government nor the county government. It is

a responsibility of both governments to look after women and youths.

The county fund will go a long way. I can’t talk of the uwezo fund because I am not directly

involved in it. I will talk of what I am involved in. The county government had suggested a

revolving fund. I am not sure but to start with, it was 1.5 million to start with, subject to

confirmation. I think it failed when it went to the budget committee. That was a very important

initiative.

I am saying that youths should not be given handouts. You give them something as a member of

the County Assembly and tell them “I am giving you to start a business.” They will close the

business within a short time. If you give them a loan, they will have the initiative of paying back.

I fit 9s not in form of a loan I am telling you, they will never pay. I have tried in my ward and I

have been left mesmerized. I have started charcoal business for some youths, within one month

they had closed shop. I have started second hand clothes in this Ol’kalou town and within two or



three months they said they had closed shop. They were not selling. This is because you give

them free money. If it is a loan and they are in a group they will take initiative to pay back.

It is needless to say about every department. Planning for the youths is a very important

initiative. In agriculture they can capture green houses, this is a booming business. You give a

group one good dairy breed and you tell them that they give back the calf to you after the mother

sires. Those are the initiatives. Every department must plan for the youth. As the mover has

stated, under industrialization we have the industries. How are we planning for the youths in this

area? In Jua Kali we are giving them a loan to buy motorcycles. Those are the initiatives. This is

a very simple initiative. If they are well implemented, we can do away with the problem of

unemployment.

Job opportunities, as seen here in the assembly, we have set a very good example because we

have employed youths. But, how many have we employed? Not more than fifty. How many are

looking for jobs? Thousands. It means we have a lot of brains out there wasting away. What do

we do to utilize these brains? These are the questions we should be asking ourselves. If we can

capture that, Nyandarua can change its face. On tenders, I have not seen any youth or a woman

being handed a tender by the county government of Nyandarua. Maybe I am not very keen, but I

have not seen. If you can remember, when we were doing the roads, the people who gave their

Lorries were only the aged. A very good example is Mr. Sighn.

You see, when they go to the bank they are told they are not credit worth. If they are in a group

and they have been engaging in activities they can go to the bank and take a loan to buy a tipper.



When we were giving the quarry work, did we give the youths? We have seen the national

government engaging NYS to do the road work. Are we going to engage our youth polytechnics

to do most of the work? For example that table would be done by some students from Ol’kalou

polytechnic. They can do very well in making the table or the chair that Mr. Speaker is seated on.

The gown of the speaker, I am told that the gown of the Speaker of the National Assembly cost

around two million. Can’t we give this work to our polytechnics? They are well trained and they

can make the gown for the speaker and even the uniform of the workers. I saw the tendering for

the uniform of the workers of Nyandarua County. That is something you don’t tender, you give it

a polytechnic. You will empower these people.

Construction of houses: For example as the assembly is being constructed, I would be very proud

to see maybe five students from Leshau Pondo polytechnic being taught how to handle those

equipment.

Being frank, I was listening to the National Assembly chairperson, committee on education, the

lady from Murang’a, she was saying that the youths that we produce are half baked and

employers are having a very tough time with them. They are not equipped, they are half baked

graduates. A good example, I met a graduate of Nyandarua Institute of Science and Technology.

The student had done a diploma in building and construction. When he went to the site, he had to

do manual work because he was told he doesn’t have any know how on the ground. You have to

start as manual worker. The parents have used thousands of Shillings and the child has to start at

zero. He is someone who has gone to class but has to start by carrying stones on his shoulders.



That is how bad it is. If we engage these polytechnics and we start involving these students in

practical work, Nyandarua will be a place to admire.

In sports, and let me first say that we had one of our county schools that has done as proud. It

was in Nanyuki last week and Passenga secondary school took the boys trophy and the girls’

trophy in the provincial games and they are proceeding to the nationals on 3 rd. Some of the

students are from my area. These are talents that befit even the national team of Kenya. What

happens? Because they are not exposed they die out here. There is a young man who used to be

very famous in Ol’kalou town. He used to be called Kantona. He died of a bullet by a solder. Just

because he was walking at night and when he was asked to stop, he ran away. He was one of the

talented men in Ol’kalou he left and no one has risen to his template. He was better than what

you see in Mariga, better than what you see in Oliech he had no high training but he was good.

He died of a bullet from a police. This youngster would have been in Nairobi playing for our

national team and getting exposure outside this locality.

We remember everyone chest stumped when they heard of Kamau Wanjiru. What if we had 10

Kamau Wanjirus? What if we have a Mariga in the national team? What if we had a chase

champion in our county? What if we had someone playing darts in the national team from

Nyandarua? It would be real pride. You can see things that Kamau Wanjiru did in Nyandarua

within that little time that he lived. The money he brought into circulation. The number of people

he helped from the ground. What if we had ten or twenty like them?



There is so much that we have in this county that is not being well done. They say that sports are

a venture that has no returns. I heard one of the CEC say that the education department does not

generate income but it takes. I felt pity. A person who has studied finance in depth, saying that

education does not produce but only absorbs. When you invest in this people, they are human

resource and, they will give back in a little while. If that is the trend, then there is something

wrong.

We don’t have a county choir, simple things. During our Madaraka Day celebrations it is the

former council choir that came out and sang. They prepared within one day and that why you

could see a lot of disharmony. These are simple things that can be done. We should have

gymnastics which can make our ceremonies very colorful.These are simple things. We involve

the youths we keep, them away from drugs. We can talk and talk on how to do these things, but

if the executive is not implementing it amounts to nothing. We will fail, but before we get there

we are supposed to make it work and I call upon the implementation committee to work none

spot. On the alcohol bill, we have not been told whether it has been signed though fourteen days

are lapsing. If it has been signed it should start working.

We have heard that they have not started placements of the positions of directors and the county

board, we should see as a legislature that it has started working but not just another bill that is

well done. We went all the way for public participation, but as it stays we will be dusting it after

several months. I wish we don’t get there. I second the able motion by Hon. Rebbecah Nyangati.

(Question proposed)



Speaker: Yes, member for Shamata.

Hon. Gachari: Thank you very much Mr. Speaker sir. I rise to support the motion on the

youths. This is the right time for the motion to come to the Assembly. I have to say like the

former prime minister who is used of saying that if it’s not now, it is right now. Most of the

youths in our county are struggling. We are getting money from our government. We are

collecting taxes from the people in Nyandarua County. However, when we get to the spending of

money, we are told that there is no money for what we have planned. This language of not

having money in our county, I really don’t understand where it come from. We are getting

money like other counties.

We can use that money to encourage our youths and even help them get employment. There is a

time I met a young orphan in my area. I paid his fees. Now he is working in Nairobi. He is

helping the others in his family. We can use our resources and definitely we can help our youths

in this county.

On the issue of the polytechnics, unless we equip them we can’t say we have polytechnics. They

are there and most of the children regard them as if they are for those that have not gone to

school. They think they are for those who have not gone up to form four.As the government of

Nyandarua we need to equip these polytechnics. This morning I enjoyed very much when I heard

Kiambu county government announcing in the radio that the Korean government, through their

ambassador, was in Kiambu trying to work out how they will help the youths of Kiambu. The



governor and the Korea government agreed to empower the youths of Kiambu. We need to have

more exposure. We need to go beyond this county. We get donors for the sake of our people.

I stand here to say that this should not be a motion but actually a bill. In order to make the county

work, if there is no money, let them go and look for donors in India or anywhere else.They will

encourage us to help our people. Let them go out. If we don’t have enough resources in our

county let us borrow from other counties.

We don’t have to seat here and wait for our children to be street children who will be taking the

gum in the street, I support the motion. Thank you Mr. Speaker Sir.

Speaker: County member for Kipipiri.

Hon. Nancy: Thank you Mr. Speaker sir. I rise to support the motion. The youths form the basis

for future development of any society. It is important for the youths to be empowered. If they are

not empowered there is a problem both socially and economically. We know the youths are the

future of the society. Adding on what the members who have talked before me have said, I think

the youths who are idling around are doing so because of lack of employment.If we use the

resources that we have to empower the youths, we can do this through having the revolving fund,

we can have our kitty and get money from donors, the youths will not be lying idle. The rates of

crime will also reduce because it is idleness as well as poverty that make these people do bad

things.



We have so many youths who have been destroyed by alcohol and drug. We know how they are.

Some look hopeless, for others you think they have mental illnesses, but this is just an effect of

drug. What do we do to help them? I think we should have counseling centers probably in every

sub county so that we can have those affected by drug.We have youths who have been trained in

counseling who can be help here. We can have the youths teach the youths. We can also have

rehabilitation centers where we can have this people rehabilitated to live a normal life.

Looking at it in another angle, you know what drug has done to our society. We always see

women carrying twigs on our roads. They are fighting against alcoholism. As a mother I feel

hurt, because I know that my son who has taken alcohol for a long time will never have a family.

He will never have a wife. His biological system will have been destroyed by drugs and alcohol.

If we don’t take care of the youths what will happen? We are going to have a society with only

the old people. One time the old people will die. There will be no procreation. We are going to

have a society that will easily go into extinction. We are politicians. You know the word that is

nowadays used for a big population, ‘the tyranny of numbers’. Let assume that the youths are not

having families. What will happen one day upon time? I think the tyranny of numbers that we

talk about now will have to be forgotten. We shall be bending to every Tom, Dick and Harry

who comes into our way.I am talking of our county and the country when you look at it in a

political way.

I wish that the education sector was also devolved. This would help so much because if the

retirement age should be reduced, we see that now it has been raised to 60 years. We always said



that the youths are the leaders of tomorrow that is, when am fifty and my son is thirty and I am

saying he is the leader of tomorrow. When I am fifty six my son is 31 I am still saying the youths

are the leaders of tomorrow. We don’t know what will happen tomorrow so the retirement age

might be raised to seventy.

When will the youths get employment? I wish all the sectors were devolved. I would propose

that the retirement age should go down to forty five years so that our youths are absorbed. I am

wondering why we are training our children yet we are working even when we are seventy. We

are creating a hundred universities. Some are even being in hotels. We are creating our own

problems. We don’t care. Nobody cares about the youths. I wish all sectors were devolved and

the retirement age in Nyandarua be brought to below fifty, be forty five years of for instance. I

say the youths in their well being they can support the society.

Speaker: Yes member for Milangine.

Hon. Ndirangu: Thank you Mr. Speaker, I also rise to support the motion that has been brought

by Hon. Nyangati. On issue of the polytechnics, let me say that my ward happens to have one of

the biggest polytechnics in this county. The enrollment is so high, but majority of these students

are not absorbed in various government institutions that we have. I suggest that for them to be

role models to other youths, for instance, we are constructing the assembly,these students have

that knowledge, I wish that they be absorbed in the construction of the assembly and other

government institutions in this county. This will motivate other youths who have no interest in

joining these polytechnics. They will develop the interest of joining the polytechnics.



Just go to Nakuru and see that some of the biggest buildings are being constructed with the help

of students from Mirangine polytechnic. I wish you could visit this area and see how these

students are doing. Other than construction, there are so many other courses being offered in that

polytechnic for instance dress making? I wish they are also given those tenders to make dresses.

So as to encourage our youths we need to do the necessary. I support the motion and wish that

the county should do all within its ability to empower the youths. Once the youths benefit we

will be happy residents of the county. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Speaker: Member for Leshau Pondo.

Hon. Kamau Josphat: Thank you Mr. Speaker. I rise to support the motion pertaining to the

youths as it has been moved by Hon. Nyangati. First and foremost, I wish to bring to the

attention of this house what the constitution says about the youths and their role. Our constitution

under chapter four, what we call the general provisions of bills of right, article fifty five. If you

allow me I will read what it says.

“The state shall take measures including affirmative measures to ensure the youths; Access

relevant education and training, have opportunity to associate, be represented in the political,

economic and other spheres of life, access employment and are protected from harmful cultural

practices and exploitation.”

That is well documented but poorly implemented in the contemporary society, both at the

national level and the county level. It is common knowledge that if I establish a business, I



should be the first consumer. What is happening in our county? We are the people who are

undertaking the largest number of projects. Under the ministry of education we are building ECD

classes, two in every ward. When, you go to the site who are the people constructing them? It is

people who are not youths. They are people who are not from our polytechnics. They are people

hired from other spheres. Let Nyandarua set an example. Let the projects be undertaken by our

youths in the polytechnics. Mirangine polytechnic and Leshau Pondo polytechnics are the

biggest polytechnics that we have. Why are we denying them chances to practice and even earn a

livelihood? They can benefit from the money we are disbursing to other persons.

As Hon. Kamau Ngotho has said, investing in human resource is very expensive, but the fruits

are always sweet. If we don’t invest in human resource, Nyandarua will be doomed. The youths

are the people that are raising a lot of issues. They are the people we are saying will change the

face of Nyandarua. What will happen twenty years to come if we don’t invest in them?

Nyandarua will be hiring trained personnel from other counties. To reverse this, we need to

invest more in our youth in a way that other counties will be hiring human resources from our

county.

There was a very embarrassing situation in our county. I have to say this. How can you appoint

somebody above the age of sixty, to represent them? Does it mean that there were no learned

youths in our county who would have interest to represent? It is common logic that if the youths

are the leaders of tomorrow, why not today? Let it not be said tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow.

Let it be now. When it comes to those public appointments, let the youths be represented by one



of their own. Let it be a person who has concern for other youths. He has a lot of knowledge on

the issues affecting the youths.

The makers of the constitution unfortunately left out the youths and their plight. They are neither

directly under the county government nor under the national government. How were they able to

associate youths with the polytechnics? How were they able to associate youths with the sports?

This is the biggest question we need to ask ourselves. If we don’t take the necessary measures to

safeguard the youths who are poorly represented be it in the national level or the county level, if

we don’t fight for their rights, if we don’t advocate, and if we don’t shout, if we don’t fight

wrongs will be bestowed to our youths and the blame will go to our youths and they will be said

to be irresponsible. They are not irresponsible. The only thing is that they are not economically

empowered. How can we empower them? This can be done by creating a fund. Let’s forget the

fund that was created by the national assembly. At the county level we can set aside a certain

amount as Hon. Nyangati has suggested. I concur with her.

Let a fund be set aside for our youths in every docket, in every department. That way we are

going to develop them economically. Politically, let them not be misused during the political

seasons and during campaign only. Even after elections, let our youths be heard. Let the youths

be the spokespersons of other youths politically. Our youths will set precedence and other

counties will be coming to our county to benchmark what we have done for our youths. I surely

stand here to support and even urge this assembly to support this motion by Hon. Nyangati.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker.



Speaker: Yes member for Kanjuiri Ridge.

Hon. Suleiman: Thank you Mr. Speaker sir, I rise to support the motion by Hon. Nyangati, and

as I support the motion, let me say that there is this issue of polytechnics. In fact in the

polytechnics, the only thing that is lacking is only the practical. When our youths go to

polytechnics they are trained theoretically but when it comes to practical they not exposed, so

when they go out they cannot be employed. When we go to those people who are wishing to take

their youths to polytechnics, they are not encouraged because those that are coming from the

polytechnics are not employed anywhere. They don’t have any exposure in practical, so we are

asking the county government to have some arrangement on how these polytechnics will give

exposure in practical so that our students in polytechnics can be employed when they come out

from the school.

The other thing is about civic education. There is this fund we call the youths’ funds, in fact we

are saying that this youth funds should be given to those youths but they don’t have any civic

education. How do they utilize this money? In fact they are going to come and pick this money

but they are not going to be helped by this money because they don’t have any civic education on

what to do with this money. I would urge the county government to make arrangements so that

we can have civic education on how we can utilize this funds so that it can be helpful to our

youths and also when we give our youths all this civic education and technical skills, they are not

going to be in drugs and that way, we can have good leaders today and in the future. Thank you

Mr. Speaker and I support the motion



Speaker: Yes leader of majority.

Hon. Gichuki: Thank you Mr. Speaker. I rise of course to support but most importantly to

commend the Honorable members and to thank the member representing the youth because Mr.

Speaker it is clear that she had clearly thought about this issue.

Mr. Speaker the youth is the group that is not supposed to disappear. There are serious issues

about them that require to be resolved. Every time we talk about the youth, and Mr. Speaker my

observation is that we keep talking about the youth for so long a time, there is very little that

seems to be done in regard to the same youth we talk about. I propose that we give serious

challenges to two people who represent the youth in the county; that is Hon. Nyangati and Hon.

Mwichigi who has just walked out.

Mr. Speaker, all these things we are talking about and especially when we talk about tenders, we

say that there is a government policy that requires that 30% of the government tenders should be

given to the youths. The important question you ask yourself is; are the youth prepared and have

they the information required, and do they know what they are required to have to qualify for

these opportunities? Mr. Speaker saying that you are going to provide 30% of the tenders to the

youths, and I want to give a case example of the county assembly of Nyandarua where in the

process of pre-qualification, we have even clearly indicated that this particular kind of business

should be for the youth. The important thing will be this; if we don’t have any youth who has

prerequisite qualifications that will enable him or her to qualify for that job, if he is a youth will

he qualify. Now the question I am posing to those two members is, how are they preparing the



youths at the ward level? This is because for them to qualify for this 30% there are specific

qualifications and certification that they ought to have so that they can be awarded these jobs.

Have we prepared them? This is the challenge I want us to take.

When it comes to youth policy, and I just want to refer to the kind of situation that was here the

other day. This assembly cannot wait for the executive every now and then to bring issues to this

assembly so that they can be acted upon. If the executive is taking too much time to come up

with this policy I am putting the question to the two Honorable members that is Hon. Nyangati

and Hon. Mwichigi, you need to sit as the representatives of youth through your respective

committees and bring up a policy by yourself with the help of our now fully equipped legal

department? So that Mr. Speaker some of these things do not necessarily delay as we wait for the

executive to do them. I am saying this time round, I don’t want to come and say what ought to be

done to the youth. I want to take the challenge and I also want this assembly to take the challenge

and ask itself what it is doing as a legislative arm to ensure that there are structures that are going

to be used to ensure the youth representation.

Mr. Speaker when we come to departments, like now we are almost going to the next level of

doing our roads, it is clear that this time round the assembly must have a resolution that is going

to compel and especially the department of roads, that this time round let no single road be done

using machines and let every single road be done through manual labor provided by the youths.

If we use this policy and actually it has been proven, all the roads that were done and actually

were named Roads 2000, because the policy of doing roads by manual labor was introduced in



2000; when you go to all the roads that were labeled roads 2000 in Kinangop, up to this day you

will find that those roads are still intact. Look at the roads we have currently been doing using

graders. Mr. Speaker after a while they are all worn out. I would suggest that if this assembly is

serious on deliberating on its issues, then it should also come up with a resolution that all the

road works in this financial year 2014/2015 be strictly done using our youths. Let there be a

policy and if not then we will take a long time to develop and move forward.

May be this financial year we may not be able to use that policy but we must come up with our

own internal rule that ought to be developed by the committee for education in respect to the

youth and especially by Hon. Nyangati and Hon. Mwichigi. Think on what kind of legislations

we require per ward for the youths and even if it means creating Sacco’s lightly put. If it is

registering Sacco’s, let it be in each and every ward through the assistance of that committee, we

create a sequence or procedure where all the youths in the wards are going to be registered even

if it is in Sacco’s. Then these particular youths Mr. Speaker sir will avoid the bureaucracy that

goes with the requirements for you to give these youths the 30% tender. We can agree as an

assembly that for the benefit of this county we create an exception and clarify that all youths that

will have been registered under cooperatives or societies can enjoy the 30% rule on tenders

without necessarily asking for the certificates required and that require you register with the

central bank, you register with the ministry of youths.

As an assembly we should pass a resolution which will have been prepared by the two members

representing the youth through their committee and bring to this assembly after a youth group is



registered as a society then it qualifies to enjoy the 30% tender rule. Mr. Speaker on this

departments, I also think it is supposed to make a resolution again to ensure that in any other

financial year, that there is no one single budget that this assembly will pass if it does not clearly

indicate that at least we give a certain percentage, and I don’t want to give what percentage I

would like to leave to the committee concerned. It needs to define out of the total allocation of

each and every department, what kind of a percentage in terms monetary value it will set aside

for direct labour provided by the youth department. Mr. Speaker this could be done in the year

2015/2016 because we are done with 2014/2015. On education, many things have been said but

as I have said and had said earlier in this plenary when talked about polytechnics, we need to ask

ourselves whether we can change the game, instead of thinking about our youth and taking

concentration on that youth polytechnic that is in Engineer or that in Mirangine and we now

think of how we can help our youths in their respective areas of work, case example, like our

mechanics if you try to tell the mechanics to go Ndunyu-Njeru or Engineer and the biggest

polytechnic is in Ndunyu-Njeru, You try to tell them to go there so that they can be trained on

the new evolving mechanical changes in vehicles Mr. Speaker they will not go but if you set a

day and you say that you want to devolve this because we are talking about devolution and you

say you will bring experts in Ol-kalou, Ndaragwa, Kinangop and all sub-counties, we bring

youths together for either a week or two, three, four days training. Can we be able to think a little

bit outside the norm, you know our youths are frame gauged and somebody says and I quote in

kikuyu Mr. Speaker that, “Yuthi me Mung’etho” (the youths are idling at the shopping centres.)

You don’t have to do blanket condemnation, you need to ask what the youths are doing there.



Have you ever tried as a leader to engage them and they refused. What mechanism you need to

have to use is the challenge. I am posing to the people representing the youths because they

ought to think outside the box and make clear suggestions on how they want us to handle this

issue of the youth. This is because it is a delicate matter as I said. The way you handle the youth

will determine what a county we are going to have in the future.

Mr. Speaker I want to concur with the county member for Kipipiri especially the matter of age.

This is something the national assembly is supposed to look into. When you say that you have

youths and you want them to be the leaders of tomorrow, then immediately you increase the

retirement age from 55 to 60, when are you creating this opportunities for this youths Mr.

Speaker? It is completely irrational. It is only fair if somebody worked for the 55 years and he or

she needs to have organized himself or herself to create room for that other person so that he can

grow with these changing trends. I think these are among the recommendations. These are

among the recommendations that we are going to make to the senate, that Nyandarua county

assembly recommends that the senate considers moving an amendment to allow that the age for

retirement be reinstated back to 55 years so that Mr. Speaker we can be able to move together. I

will not talk much on this but will say that the challenge lies with the committee on education.

We don’t want to discuss this issue of the youths every time. They need to look at these things

and come up with a conclusive procedure. We need to put in place a road map into the

rejuvenation of our youths especially in three areas; the economic aspect, where we are going to

compel each and every department to clearly put into place what we want them to do to ensure



that the youth are represented, on the sport aspect, as much I know there are those issues that are

being discussed in the policy on sports we are saying that this assembly needs to assert authority

on legislative matters. Let us not wait until a person sits at his own time and think on when they

will bring the bills. Mr. Speaker let this committee bring to this assembly a legislative proposal

that is able to clearly indicate how this assembly wants sports activities to be undertaken because

that is when we shall be seen to be moving and not unnecessarily condemning our executive.

Mr. Speaker, one year down the line we need to ask ourselves what kind of legislative proposals

we have brought to this assembly that is going to shape this particular county. For that reason I

want to challenge all the committees that it is time we change the version now, it is time we start

thinking widely and concentrate on giving directions to this county. Mr. Speaker its time, and I

say this without apologies that the executive does not seem to understand and give a clear

direction to this particular county and now it is upon this assembly to assert authority through the

different committees so that we can give direction to this county. Mr. Speaker with that I

support.

Speaker: Yes member for Central.

Hon. Kagwe: Thank you Mr. Speaker. I rise to support the motion and also thank the

representative of youths Hon. Nyangati. When I talk about the youths, we are talking about a two

sided coin. Mr. Speaker we only look at the bad side of it and ignore the good part. When we talk

about the youth comprising of 25% of the population of Nyandarua County, and we talk about

unemployment you know that if we are going to achieve economic development we have to



focus more on the youth. We must ask ourselves why our youths are idling at “mung’etho”, the

shopping center. Do we have a resource center where they can get skills Mr. Speaker and be able

to help themselves? Most of our youths on the ground do not know what is good and what is bad.

They just do what comes their way. If today Hon. Gachari tells them, let’s do bodaboda, all of

them will follow. Another day Hon. Kamau tells them lets rear chicken, they will follow and

they will abandon the other one. Mr. Speaker we need to do civic education to the youths to

make sure that they understand themselves and are able to differentiate between what is good

and what is bad.

These youths we are talking about are very interesting. When we look at the various epidemics

that are in our society, right now as we talk the national statistic shows that HIV is dropping by

34% while drug abuse and substance has risen with 43%. It is like a seesaw Mr. Speaker. We

complain about this it drops and the other one rises. A lot must be done and we need to develop

the way forward on how these youths may be trained for them to understand themselves. As

Hon. Kamau has stated and also Hon. Gichuki has added, we the members of the education

committee need to come with a bill. Let us not expect that the executive will always do a bill. Let

us come with a bill in this assembly so that we can show the direction that we would like this

county to move towards. Mr. Speaker I would like also to challenge the members of the

Nyandarua County Assembly that we need to look at Nairobi County where Mike Mbuvi Sonko

is the senator, the other day we saw what he did for the youths. If you go to those regions, you

will find that youths are totally contributing towards development of that county. What about our



county Mr. Speaker? don’t we have a revolving fund Mr. Speaker to make that happen? In

Ndaragwa central, Leshau, Kiriita and Magumu, we have youths who have viable organizations

which are even generating funds for the county. We need to think on how to get a regulation on

how to create a fund which and it will be of great importance to our youths. I support Mr.

Speaker.

Speaker: Member for Githabai.

Hon. Kairu: Thank you Mr. Speaker sir. I fully support the motion that was brought by Hon.

Nyangati and concerning the youths. Our youths in this county have various problems. Many of

them engage in illegal matters because most of them are idle. Let’s take these young people who

have dropped from primary school as an example, if there are no polytechnics where will they go

and yet he is not involved in some activities. That person will end up engaging in issues that are

not important in a community. Some of them will engage in drugs, playing pool table game at

the places our Honorable members are calling ‘’Mung’etho’’. Before we condemn the youths we

should bear in mind that they are totally idle and remember that the bible says that idle mind is

the devil’s workshop and that’s why the devil utilizes them because they are idle and are not

utilizing their energy. They end up in psychiatric facilities because after taking the drugs, they

become unreliable in the society. Mr. Speaker like now when I was coming it is sad that you find

that some youths are already drunkards. Will you condemn those youths? No, sometimes I say

they are doing the right thing because they have nothing to do. When you come to football and

the rest, this is where you find that a ward is given only four balls.



Looking at certain areas like Githabai ward, I don’t have even a single polytechnic, and a

polytechnic this is where standard eight pupils after completing primary education, can join

when their parents are not able to take them to various high schools because the marks they get

do not make them qualify to be in some institution. They end up being maids and some of them

end up becoming mothers at a tender age because there is no one they depend on.

Another thing Mr. Speaker is that when you come to construction of the ECD centers, you get to

hear that they get the constructors from outside a particular locality. What I can recommend is

that where we have polytechnics that have the department of construction, let them be used to

construct the ECD centres, because when they are engaged and, some especially those from that

particular funds will come back the youths Mr. Speaker sir. I need protection Mr. Speaker sir

Speaker: Order member for Gathanji.

Hon. Kairu: Mr. Speaker sir, it is very sad especially for this county when we do not really

think and mind about the youths. Some of those young men are unfortunate and they end up

becoming bodaboda drivers. During a rainy season, the youths continue with their business

irregardless of the weather and nobody seems to ever think of protecting them from the harsh

weather conditions. With this, I mean the bodaboda sheds were supposed to be built to protect

the youths but nothing has taken place. This county is not implementing what needs to be

implemented. When we look at some other areas things are being done at a high speed, but when

we look at our county nothing is being done for the development of this county. Mr. Speaker sir,

I now take this time to request the CEC member to think and see how some things are going to



be done. When Mr. Speaker we come to the issues of polytechnics, they say that they are going

to set them in every ward, and I curse any person who will come with a different idea and say

that we should not build a polytechnic in Githabai ward. It happens that when we propose a

project somebody somewhere will go and divert that amount of money to some other activities. I

support the member for Leshau-Pondo on his sentiments about the person leading the issue of

youths, how can an old man lead the youths when we have the youths that could be an example

of how we are concerned with the youths being there leader? In fact Mr. Speaker something must

be done to make sure that we look into this issue seriously. Let’s not say that we are developing

the youths but when we come to it, it is the other way round. Mr. Speaker sir, I support the

motion by Hon. Nyangati and I call the motion mover to respond. Thank you Mr. Speaker sir

Speaker: County member for Githioro.

Hon. Dorcas: Thank you Mr. Speaker. I rise to support this motion. Aware that there are a lot of

youths in this county and these youths become useful only when we are doing the campaigns.

We only engage them during the campaigns, promise them a lot of things but when it comes to

implementation, Mr. Speaker nothing of that sort happens. We have many youth polytechnics in

our areas. I would say that these youth polytechnics be fully equipped. Youth polytechnics being

some of the devolved functions Mr. Speaker, we need to do many things in the area including

creating youth polytechnics exhibitions. For example we can have Mirangine, Leshau-Pondo and

Ol-Kalou polytechnics competing in what they are doing in a particular area. With that we are

going to have a team such that when we have our national show in Nairobi, Nyeri or the show we



had here in Ol-Kalou, we can have those youths so that they can show what they have come up

with in their youth polytechnics. Through this Mr. Speaker, our youths who are not in the

polytechnics will be encouraged to join the youth polytechnics because they will see that there

are things being done there. I remember during the campaigns, one of the manifestos of the

jubilee government to be was to have 30% of the contracts being awarded to the youths however

the policy and the requirements for the youths to get the contracts Mr. Speaker are very high. I

will support what Hon. Gichuki is saying that we need to have a county policy so that we can

exempt some requirements for the youths to qualify to get the contracts. I would wish to say that

in our county budget, each and every department should have a youth friendly budget. You can

remember that the government had a policy duped ‘kazi kwa vijana’. You find that our roads

were being done by hand or manually. The de-silting of dams was also manually done. This can

be done in our county. Every department to have a fund that the youths can be encouraged to

carry out those activities. In our county in the department of water there should be a fund to dig

dams and the youths should be engaged to dig the dams instead of the machines and they can be

do it very well because they are doing it for their areas. With that, they will be empowered and

civic education can be carried out on those works, on how they can form groups and have an

association so that they can get these contracts. We can also see the government carrying out the

tarmacking of roads on wage basis and this is to empower the youths Mr. Speaker. Our

Nyandarua County is not far from that.



In Nakuru County, the toilets are being managed by the youths and the youth groups and they are

very clean. They are cleaned on a fee. That can be started in Nyandarua County that. If you go to

all our towns we can see that our toilets are not well done and they are not cleaned Mr. Speaker.

In those towns we can be engaging the youth groups to clean those toilets.

(Loud consultations)

Hon. Dorcas: Mr. Speaker, please defend me from Hon. Kamau.

Mr. Speaker: Order Hon. Kamau.

Hon. Dorcas: We need to engage our youths and you will see our toilets will be well cleaned

and our youths will be getting a fee out of that. I also remember that under the economic

stimulus plan, youth empowerment centers which were being built in every sub county were not

equipped. Those are the areas where our youths could be going to get material from for any

advertisement, this could can be posted in those youth center. Youth functions having been a

devolved function to counties, I would urge the county executive to make sure that the youth

resource centers are equipped and ready for use because the public funds were used to build

those houses and are not in use. Mr. Speaker with that, I support this motion because the youths

are the future of this county and this country. Thank you

Speaker: Yes member for Kaimbaga

Hon. Njiraini: Thank you Mr. Speaker. We are happy to see you back actually yesterday I

forgot to say welcome back to you Mr. Speaker. I do support this motion by Hon. Nyangati. It



has actually come at the right time. You know when we talk about the youths they are the

potential leaders of today and not necessarily tomorrow. If we consider so many issues of every

ward including the whole county, I think the issue of youth is almost similar Mr. Speaker. If we

don’t support the youths we can be voted out by all those electorates who elected us and most

probably the youth. I remember when we were campaigning we gave hope to the youths. Now I

have several job application letters in my office Kaimbaga. I usually give them direction that

after the advertisement has been put on the paper, they apply for those jobs in the County

Government, but Mr. Speaker they usually bring so many applications in my office but I don’t

give jobs. I encourage them that if they see advertisement on the paper they should just apply to

the assembly or the county. What I am saying is that we need to support these youths in any way

and provide them with the revolving funds or rather loans. We should come up with a good

policy for example there is uwezo fund for the national government we should have a revolving

fund for our county. Like now there are a lot of questions since there is this uwezo fund but they

don’t have access to it. So we as the elected members close to them, they always plead to us

asking how they can get access to the money and you find most of the Honorable members are

helpless in that area because this money is managed by the CDF and by a member of the national

assembly. If we can come up with a way that we can help our youths directly, I think we can gain

mileage and I also think God will bless us. You know there was a sentiment and you allow me

Mr. Speaker in Kiswahili, “kazi kwa vijana pesa kwa wazee” and if they have that altitude Mr.

Speaker I think we need to have a paradigm shift as the deputy speaker says so that we can

change that mentality and they can will feel that we are supporting them in the polytechnics,



institutions so as they can manage and can get somewhere. Much has been said I really do

support this motion Mr. Speaker and reading the mode of the house I call the mover to respond.

Speaker: Yes member for Gathanji.

Hon. Thuita: Thank you Mr. Speaker I rise to support the motion, on the issue we are talking

about matters of the youth, it is good that we understand where we are getting to and where we

are coming from. Mr. Speaker you facilitated the committee on education, youth and whatever to

go to Nairobi…

Speaker: What is the name of the committee member for Gathanji?

Hon. Thuita: The committee is education, labour and social services.

(Hon. Kamau Njoroge rises on a point of information)

Speaker: Do you need the information from the chairman?

Hon. Thuita: Yes.

Speaker: Chairman.

Hon. Kamau Josphat: Thank you Mr. Speaker the committee is on education, youth culture and

social services.

Speaker: I think you are now informed member for Gathanji.



Hon. Thuita: Thank you Mr. Speaker. It is that word ‘youth’ that I was trying to avoid because

when we went there the way the CEC was putting it, it was like it does not cover that word

‘youth’, because they say it is not a devolved function. It took us time, almost an hour arguing on

the same subject, where do we put the youths. Finally when you look at the heading of that, we

put it as sports and youths to at least put them somewhere in the county. I told the chief officer in

charge that one thing that the transitional authority could have advised on is that the youth affairs

could have been devolved because in every county in Kenya, the youths have unique problems in

their respective counties. If this it is not devolved we are going to talk about the youths in this

country whereas they will not get a mileage to get up there.

When we talk about the youths it’s between the ages of 18 to 35 years and there is a gap of

between 17 years and these people don’t think alike. When we make policies in our counties, we

try to put them in different age groups. Going out there we will find so many youth groups of

about 30 to 35 years. They use their knowledge to exploit those who are between 18 to 25 years.

This should be looked into when we are making policies in this county.

The second thing I noted is that these resource centers are not under the County Government. I

asked how a national government with people in Nairobi can manage a youth resource centers in

the village. Mr. Speaker I understand that every representative of the people elected or

nominated has a duty to perform. We cannot grow this county without exploring what is

happening. Now we have a show in Nyeri and it is being advertised even in the media, here there



is a need to have technology, but no one in this county is trying to involve the youths to at least

to take something there and see what is happening.

This morning Mr. Speaker I was late to come to this house because I thought that I should

consolidate the youth groups in my ward and have eleven groups so that I take them there on

Friday so that when they get this uwezo fund they can decide what to do with the money,

otherwise they will get the one hundred thousand shilling but they will not do anything and they

will just remain the way they were. We need to do a lot but not only saying that these youths are

neglected. With that I support the motion and would like to call the mover to respond.

Speaker: The mover.

Hon. Nyangati: Thank you Mr. Speaker. I would like to appreciate the members for supporting

this motion finalize by noting that in the national government, we do not have a ministry on

youths, so Mr. Speaker we are told that the youths are not devolved and they not in the national

government. What I would urge this Honorable house is to start with this. I have tried to say it to

the executive member many times but he has not taken action on the same. I have been

requesting for information day in day out concerning the youth, because Mr. Speaker sir I don’t

find it necessary to say that we are going to empower the youths and yet the youths don’t have

information on what is devolved or what we expect them to do for them so as to benefit from the

county government. The youths don’t know that 30% of the tenders belong to them. They don’t

know what they are expected to have in order to get the tenders like most of the youths don’t

differentiate between the businesses and the CBO (Community Based Organizations). Therefore



they need this kind of information and they should know what the youths are doing elsewhere

and what we are doing for them like for example in sports. I believe we need a common

information day where we call all the youths in the county and on the same day we can have

something like a talent show.

We can also have different committees to investigate the entry points for the polytechnics. We

would wish to know whether those people who join the polytechnics are form four leavers or

class eight leavers because most of the polytechnics ask for form four certificates. I also feel that

we should have the students join the polytechnics after class eight to get the technical skills. I

would also ask the education committee to try and do bench marking in other counties and

because other counties understood earlier than us that the youth sector is not devolved. Maybe

they have some things set up for the youth. When they do the bench marking, they will be able to

compare and contrast what we are doing and what is being done elsewhere. Mr. Speaker sir, it

happened that I visited Nakuru County with personal interests and I found that there was a

project that was being implemented by the bodaboda people. They went to a bank and took a

loan and they bought a piece of land and then they looked for donor who helped them built some

two bedroom houses. They are about forty of them and now every one of them has a house and

they are even rearing chicken there. I would urge our executive to implement this. I also request

that we have sport buses in our county so that we take our sportsmen out there to compete. We

can use them because 80% of the cost used is going to the transport. It is my feeling that this

Honorable should consider that in future so that before the end of the five years, maybe we have



two buses for the youth to be used when we take them for sports or educational tour or even the

shows. We can reduce the cost. When the bus is not busy we can hire it for other events and it

will bring some income for youths. I also think that we should have a website for the youths so

that we empower and inform the people on polytechnics so that when we come up with some

projects for the youths that they can be able to advertise and market products using the website.

I also think that we have various funds created by the national government for the youth like we

have the ‘uwezo’ fund, we have the youth fund and even if we are satisfied that we have these

funds, we should know that these funds are too hard to get. You find that the process is too

tedious and there are requirements that are needed to get these tenders for example, you should

have a business for at least six months and it is very hard to find a youth who has a business that

has been running for more than six months.

If you want to get a loan most of the times, they will start by giving fifty thousands and if you are

about fifteen of you and you know that fifty thousand nowadays you cannot do much because

even if you intend to buy a cow you only buy one. The other thing that has been said by

Honorable Ngotho is about the county choirs. I still feel we have youths in our county who are

talented in music and also acting. I think Mr. Speaker sir during Madaraka day Hon. Kamoche

mentioned on the same. Most of the people who presented there came from Nairobi. We can

have our youths who are interested in music and maybe empower them. They can entertain our

people in the county and get something instead of having other people coming to our county.



We should also have cultural centers. Looking at Nyandarua County, most of the people have not

originated from this county. They have come from Nyeri, Murang’a and Kiambu Counties but in

Nyandarua County we don’t have a culture and that’s why you find that somebody who is 20

years greets a fifty years person by saying ‘hi’ or ‘yes’. I don’t feel it very good. I would like a

situation where we have cultural centers so that we can try and develop a culture in our county.

The other issue I have is about the banks, I tried to talk with a bank manager in KCB around here

and they were telling me they have an allocation specifically for youths and they don’t go for it

because they don’t have the information. The allocation gets back if we don’t have some youths

applying for it. He told me that the condition is that the youth should come up with the project

but the condition is that the youth banks with the same bank. The other issue I would like to talk

about is what Honorable Kamau my able chairman has commented about. We usually say that

the youths are the leaders of tomorrow. To me however, Mr. Speaker tomorrow never comes. It

is good that we train the youths to be leaders of today. It is true Mr. Speaker sir that you cannot

employ a person who is sixty years old to represent the youths and yet there are many youths

who are interested and can be very good. Saying the youths are the leaders of tomorrow cannot

save and so we should train our youths to be the leader of today. Let us stop being the rubber

stampers. Let’s not see that Nyandarua County is the one that should go ton bench mark in other

counties. It is the time we come up with a very good policy for the youths so that other counties

can come to learn from us.



I would also like to respond to mheshimiwa from Engineer’s call about the youth policy. In May

we went to Nakuru to draft the youth policy as the education committee with the executive and

we came up with the youth policy and decided to make a bill and it is in the final stages. I am

urging the executive to hurry up on that bill so that the youths can benefit from the budget. The

other thing is that we would urge the executive that at least everything that is passed in this house

is implemented. Let us not just say things and nothing is done. I appreciate and thank the

Honorable members for that and before I summarize, I would like to retaliate as the county

member from Kipipiri has said that the youths should be the ones to clean toilets. Mr. Speaker

sir, it is not bad but now it’s time we make a difference so that youths are not the ones to be

doing the odd jobs. We want the youth to be given jobs according to their areas of specialization.

It is time we should change and say that such jobs as toilets cleaning should be done by the old

people. Mr. Speaker sir the youths have a future and we need to train them according to their

careers and profession. Thank you Mr. Speaker sir.

Speaker: What is it member for Kipipiri.

Hon. Nancy: Mr. Speaker sir I am the nominated member from Kipipiri and I don’t remember

saying something of that nature.

Speaker: She is talking about Kipipiri constituency and not the Ward.

Hon. Nancy: I thought it is Kipipiri ward Mr. Speaker sir.

Speaker: County member from Njabini-Kiburu, did you beg to move?



Hon. Nyangati: I beg to move the motion Mr. Speaker sir

(Question on the motion put and agreed upon)

Speaker: Now this is a motion of this house and will be communicated to the executive and I

think the contributions of members will be taken from the Hansard when it is done and I think

this is the right way to move. Honorable members, even if we have the youth policy document

being done by the Executive, I think this is the document that should come to this house for

enriching and to be approved by this house so that the same can transcend to a legislative

proposal and if that happens, I think the committee on education chairman can follow up on that

one to ensure that it is brought to the floor of this house. Further the chairman of the education

committee and persons representing the youths Hon. Mwichigi and Hon. Nyangati and your

committee with your leadership shall be able to move and consult with our legal department, so

that if the executive is not working towards the legislative proposal, we can be able to do it as an

assembly and engage the experts in the same aspect. I think if the youths are secured, everything

else is secure and also our future is secure. I think this a very important area, like in civic

education, our youths have had many opportunities but they do not realize them. Therefore

Honorable members it’s very critical that we look at section 98 to 101 of the county government

act for the purposes of making a legislative proposal and civic education because it is provided

for. I think that even the issue of the education day for the youths will be captured in that

legislative proposal on civic education.



The other issue that has been raised is about the wastage rates. I think this is a communication

we have to send to the executive. The transition from high school to colleges and universities is

less than 20%. It has to be stopped if this county has to develop. I think this is something that we

have communicated very effectively.

I am also very impressed on the issue of allocation of resources to at least five development

projects every year for the youths. If that one is captured in the legislative proposal, the executive

will have nothing else than implement it. Once the budget is passed, they have to implement it.

The other issue is the engagement of the youths so that they can attract experience. This can

make them marketable and help this county and other counties. I think what the members are

communicating to the executive and the assembly’s board is that whenever we are undertaking

programs either for buildings or on the roads, we should ensure that the young people from the

polytechnics are involved on attachments. I think as an assembly we are going to take that up

immediately. We believe they have very serious expertise on metal works and other things.

The other issue that was raised and I thought it was very important is involving our youths in the

polytechnics in dressmaking and in all those other things that we consume in the county. We

don’t require the procurement laws because they are government installations. We are going to

be helping the youths.

On classification of the youths, this is very critical area. A youth who is 35 years and another one

who is 18 years cannot be moving in the same line and direction thus they can be trained



according to their age and their education. I think that is the only way as a government we can be

able to help them. I think most of these things have been captured in the motion. We shall

effectively communicate it to the executive and make a follow up on the same. Next order.

Clerk: The order paper is exhausted Mr. Speaker Sir.

(House adjourns to 29th July, 2014 at 2: 30 PM)


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