Ukraine receives 1,550 armoured vehicles, 230 tanks and large amounts of ammunition. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has summarised the number of armoured vehicles and tanks transferred to Ukraine within the Reimstein format meetings. In general, though the US-led contact group, NATO allies and partners have provided unprecedented assistance to Ukraine. More than 98% of the combat vehicles promised to Ukraine have already been delivered. This means more than 1,550 armoured vehicles, 230 tanks and other equipment, including large quantities of ammunition, Stoltenberg said. In general, he said more than nine new Ukrainian armoured tank brigades have been trained and equipped thanks to the support of partners. This will give Ukraine a strong position for further liberation of the occupied territories, Stoltenberg emphasised. Earlier, the NATO Secretary-General said that Ukraine is ready to regain more territory and it prepares for an expected counter-offensive against Russian forces. I am sure that now they will be able to free up even more land, Stoltenberg told. The NATO official noted that Germany and the United States have delivered several Patriot air defence batteries which, according to him, are already working in Ukraine. Stoltenberg added that now the alliance is focused on ensuring the victory of Ukraine and then making sure Kiev has deterrent powers to prevent attacks after the end of the war. Stoltenberg hinted that some new types of weapons may be discussed at the new Ramstein-style meeting, but maintaining the combat capability of the systems already available in Ukraine remains an important task.


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I'm always quite curious in these events who you're competing against in terms of the other panels And then in fact, you know, if you look at the other panels There's a qualitative difference actually to this panel in the sense those are the the kind of I don't know how to put this Those are the kind of your kind of high attention Sexy crises in the terms of your refugees climate Economic crisis and actually this this this panel is more of a kind of slow-burning crisis That will eventually reach a people actually might underlie a lot of the issues. We certainly have a substantial interaction certainly with the refugee crisis But also with climate change and with economic crisis, too, of course, we were talking about jobs so my presentation gives a an overview of My Tony and myself take on the issues around employment The interaction of inclusive growth and structural change And there are some question marks about what aid might be able to do about that and some views on that and actually in a sense I've focused here on ODA, but you could think about well, what could development corporation more broadly not just ODA, but you know You know favorable trade policies dare even say it's you know the migration and other forms of international corporation So the presentation itself is premised on five Five arguments The first is that there's there's essentially I think three curves that help us understand What I'll call the jobs crisis. You could equally well call it the jobs opportunity particularly if If productive employment does emerge For those looking for work. So perhaps there's an opportunity as well But I think there's also a crisis to it in the sense of the the the numbers and what's required in a relatively short space of time the second contention relates to what I see what we see as the kind of Essentially the underlying tension between two development goals that developing countries are pursuing The first is structural change by which I mean the shift to a higher economic productivity different sectors or intra Intersectoral allocation of reallocation of economic activity and inclusive growth Then I talk a little bit about differences between the regions if you if you're looking at sub-Saharan Africa You'll get quite a different sense of the crisis compared to two other parts of the world If you look at the if you look as we will in the moment of the demographic curves, you'll probably start to panic Certainly that the number of people who'll be looking for jobs in sub-Saharan Africa is on the rise and will be Perhaps in the order of a hundred million for a year for a new entrance to the labor force So that's gonna be a substantial number of people looking for work I say a bit about structural change We tend to look at structural change as conceptually different to inclusive growth What I'm arguing is By looking at the tensions between the two and some of the trade-offs that might be a productive route to go down And finally when it comes to aid I think the things that aid can do that national funds can't and that might be an interesting Avenue to pursue when it comes to employment So first of all the three curves now So each picture represents a curve and this is this is not a test You most of you I think will know Arthur Lewis who's in the top right hand corner very famous development economist This is an anonymous baby from Google And then the bottom list there's people with placards Looking for jobs. So essentially we're talking about three curves. I think the first is the demographic curve Which is actually a set of curves. So there's dependency ratio working-age population But importantly, I think the labor force annual growth the absolute number of people that are looking for jobs each year And so for some parts of the world, it's too many. So for some parts of the world, we'll see it's actually too few perhaps Then there's a structural change curve Which is essentially about the the shares of GDP and employment and how they're spent sectorally Now that there's been some debate about Deindustrialization or premature deindustrialization in developing countries And what's the potential for the service sector to actually provide employment in the future? And then the third curve is is about job creation and how it relates to to GDP and value added So I think there's a tension here between And again, it's not a test I'm curious if anyone recognizes these people. The left-hand side is Simon Kuznetz very famous for the Kuznetz curve The the one on the right is probably less well known. He's Corrado genie who developed the genie coefficient So actually I think developing countries are pursuing two goals that create a tension Or at least a set of trade-offs. The first goal is is structural change. That's economic development The transition from an agrarian traditional subsistence economy into a high-productivity modern economy And the second is around inclusive growth Ensuring that the benefits of growth are broad-based. This is a historical debate that's Re-emerged in the World Bank shared prosperity thinking, but also it's essentially about pro-poor growth and participation in the growth process for employment Now one of those goals tends to push up inequality if you look at the although the the Kuznetz curve is is Largely dumped as a universal law If you look at the time series data for the countries that have been growing fast and that growth has been led by structural change You tend to find diesel shares of the richest expanding and of the poorest being squeezed On the other hand inclusive growth is best achieved with static or falling inequality So at the center of these is a is an issue around the dynamics of inequality that I think plays out through employment And how does this differ by regions? So I think you can ask three questions The first is how many jobs are needed and how does this differ by region? The second is what you know which sectors and you know whether you talk about dig it make it or sell it And then think about how many jobs are actually being created and how that differs between regions and also the trade-offs between employment creation and productivity Productively growth So these are the these are effectively what the panel is about in many ways. These are the demography graphs for regions of the world 1950 to 20 2100, you know, of course the the projections are a medium variant here If you take them at face value, you as I say you'd probably start worrying some regions of the world Or at least you'd see a you know The crisis in other rooms may appear more acute and sexy, but actually the underlying crisis here is really quite significant I draw your attention to the graph on the right hand side, which I think is in some ways is perhaps a more important graph What it shows is for the regions of the world how the the the numbers of the working age population is changing the blue shaded Line is between now and 2030 and as you can see for Sub-Saharan Africa You have this it's kind of a very sharply rising curve Over a hundred million new entrance to the labor force every year Perhaps for the next 70 years if you accept the medium variant projections In other parts of the world particularly in East Asia what you have is almost the opposite in the sense a In China because of the one child policy But also Indonesia Malaysia over the next 10 years Other parts of East Asia will actually go to the situation where they're the labor forces is contracting and that of course raises issues for In you know How how that that's paid for and the kind of employment for those who are in the labor force and what they essentially will be taxed for India has a declining curve, but it's still at the level of a hundred million labor force entrants each year in in South Asia Then there's been a lot of debate recently about The the the issues of industrialization de-industrialization in many developing countries has now a debate about re-industrialization And so of course there's the you know The the Arthur Lewis Simon Kuznets and others historically talked about the structural transformation From a traditional society or traditional economy to a modern economy again drawing your attention to the Curves on the right-hand side of manufacturing in particular The the regions of the world are labeled by their initials ea's East Asia SSA is sub-Saharan Africa VA is value-added and EMP's employment and what you tend to find is it appears that the the share of Manufacturing in GDP or employment has reached some kind of peak And it's actually services that are on the rise now Within those patents. There's all sorts of oddities particularly for sub-Saharan Africa. I mean if you look for example Sub-Saharan Africa is actually And I think some of that relates to the the impacts on manufacturing of commodity booms, perhaps and Finally the the essentially the how many jobs are being created per unit of value-added So this shows how things differ regionally in terms of sectors and parts of the world This is the relationship between GDP or value-added and employment created So the the dotted line up the middle at 45 degrees is essentially one-to-one okay a As a relationship between job creation and employment if if a country's red curve is above the curve Then it's on the the favoring productivity side below the curve is favorite employment And I think what's interesting when you when you look across these curves is Actually in some parts of the world You can see that there's not only a Trending That's not that far from the one-to-one line and other parts of the curve The the the the line of best fit is substantial distance from the one-to-one curve And this is I mean to me this raises some of the trade-offs in some of this the debates about employment That I'll come to in a moment So I think that there's been a obviously there's a historic literature on inclusive growth and structural change And one way to try and think about the interaction of the two Around employment that might be useful is trying to think well if you were going to have inclusive structural change What would that look like? Clearly you could have a focus on the workers with less education or lower education levels You could have a focus on SMEs small and medium-sized enterprises. You might think about the employment to GDP ratios You might think about the trade-offs between productivity led growth and labor absorption Particularly at certain levels of development You might think about the composition of the informal and the formal sector But each of these has a kind of a kind of trade-off or a caveat So if you were thinking about The the employment to GDP ratios you might want to think also about the productivity gains issue and what's driving growth You were thinking about the composition of employment you may favor formal employment, but that actually may be less jobs All of these things seem to write sort of normative questions about the kind of kind of jobs that might be created in the trade-offs and Also, then it sort of follows on a set of trade-offs about who's supposed to do what about it? So again, it kind of crudely in a way the the quickest thing to do would be simply to put more capital or Or or expand state-owned enterprises, but of course that raises issues of the sustainability of that financial sustainability And also the levels of productivity You might want to liberalize the SME sector or the climate or support SMEs But then that would create a lot of informal low productivity jobs potentially You might want to think about foreign investment, but that tends to favor skilled workers So that may not deal with the sort of inclusivity type arguments Or you may want to pursue labor market flexibility But may create more jobs, although I think on things like minimum wages. There's really quite an ambiguous literature now Certainly, there's an association with labor market flexibility and squeezing the share of GNI to the poorest 40% So they've market flexibility may create more jobs. It may also squeeze these share of income to the poorest I'm gonna leave that one and jump that for the moment. We can come back to the issues about what drives growth So what can I do about all these things in given the what you essentially got is a set of tensions and conflicts A lot of you in some parts of the world a very large number of people will be looking for work I mean, there's but I think I mean again somewhat crudely. There's three views you could take The first view is it's just not the business of aid to get involved in employment creation I mean, actually, I think you could make a reasonable argument that aid already creates a lot of jobs And I don't know if anyone's actually tried to sort of quantify that I remember a time when some years ago at DFID when there were a number of I think DFID now has a commitment to create 1 million jobs But these are all in different countries and no one had aggregated the whole thing together and it came out a million So I think I think it's clearly something that's on the donor radar I'm not sure about the sustainability of a dead job creation as well I mean, maybe there's a stronger argument to focus on SMEs or the climate for SMEs to try and stimulate Or make it easier for those kind of businesses You could also take the opposite line again with with with tensions and trade-offs You could just shift a large substantial proportion of ODA over to Production ODA over to in economic infrastructure. There's an interesting graph upstairs on the wider store. I think combined production and economic infrastructure only account for about a quarter of ODA and Social spending is of course rapidly rising up to cover to cover much of the rest Clearly there's there's there's trade-offs of that shift But that might provide a way of Really boosting economic infrastructure in a way that perhaps is harder for For countries when you have to when they when the payoff for some investments is actually 25 years in the future If you think of some large infrastructure projects roads and so forth perhaps And actually if you look at the evidence on aid some of the strongest evidence aid It's actually on the the economic productive sectors Or maybe there's something a bit more nuanced In terms of a reorientation orientation to inclusive structural change I mean it strikes me that Certainly outside of the very poorest countries a lot of countries that are doing okay Are largely a collection of of of well-off urban centers So you could talk about middle-income countries, but most middle-income countries are two or three middle-income states And then a bunch of low-income countries around them So maybe there's something to be said for thinking about spatial inequality and the role aid could play in reconnecting The kind of regions where a lot of the the less educated workers or poorer workers might might might dominate And connect those to the growth poles in countries So to conclude I think There's a There's a set of relationships around structural change and inclusive growth. This simply returns to the five original arguments In a way, I mean it's interesting when you go to conferences certainly in the UK The people who would be at a conference on structural change such as the International Growth Center LSE Would be a completely different crowd that would go to a poverty conference or conference on inclusive growth I think there wouldn't be a lot of overlap which strikes me that there's a kind of there's a literature more in very Very economic journals that's that's dealing with structural change And that literature isn't isn't intermingling or Synthesizing with inclusive growth and that may be because there's some real tensions there or people are looking at different things But it strikes me that there may be a conceptually interesting area to pursue there that might be of use to policy, too And And in the in the context of that the I mean I showed you the regional curves I mean once you start going down to country level you see how different things are even within regions But clearly there's a there's a set of countries that have substantial and growing numbers of labor force entrants And others that are declining which means that the what might be appropriate policies or or International cooperation in different countries could be quite different I think I made made the point about structural change can be inclusive They've suggested the focus on the low educated workers and some work We've been doing on Indonesia thinking about this recently as well But there's there's trade-offs in terms of the productivity Gains to to be made and how many jobs are created and what kinds of jobs are created And I think underlying this is there's an argument I've been thinking about for a long time that that maybe aid money can do things that national funds can't and That's things with longer-term horizons and the current typically countries have five-year parliaments And and many pieces of infrastructure are very large upfront costs with with returns in 20 25 years So maybe there's a role a different role for aid And of course infrastructure would be a very interesting area to pursue not only for its long-run economic development benefits in terms of jobs And you're expanding the production possibility frontier But also in terms of the the short-term stimulus in terms of in terms of jobs. Thank you


Why 254, imagine? Thank you for staying with us. This is why 254 TV. We are talking about politics. It's a political segment rather. And we are talking of what President Rukenya teseidondazje regarding transforming the youth from owners of wages to owners of capital. What does that really mean? We are demystifying that particular statement politically and economically. Keep sending your comments to all our social media platforms, Y254 channel on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Before we went on a break, we listened to what Honorable Sankok said in his view what the Kazimta initiative should have been in regards to helping the youth. And I want to get your reactions, gentlemen. One guy when Sankok said that money should have been used and he said they need to sit down as leaders. Because they passed that money, yes. And they allowed President Uhuru to go ahead and agree. Yes, this will do. It's Timila's point. And they gave the youth 10 billion shillings for Kazimta initiative. Why, why, why now change the Niantiwa there? Well, yes. I think Sankok has very varied points and arguments. And what he is saying is that when Jubilee came into power, they had a very ambitious plan to change this country, improve the lives of the young people. And if we can remember well that the Jubilee government it was perceived to be a digital government which will look into affairs of the young people. But it has turned out to be the opposite. For example, when you look at the appointments, appointments happen in the appointment. So I think the Jubilee government has let down the youth in a certain extent and practically talking about what he has said on the Big Four agenda, that was a agenda that could employ millions of young people. But in the meantime now the priorities changed from the Big Four to the BBI which we have now. And even at the moment that we have, you know, a lot of millions of Kenyans have been affected by the pandemic. Millions of Kenyans cannot afford to pay the bills, hospital bills. And we remember that we had the universal health care in the Big Four as the period whereby NHL have saying that it cannot cover the millions of Kenyans who affected by the pandemic and other diseases like cancer. At the time, a lot of households are selling lads and other properties so that they can be able to pay the hospital fees for their loved ones. And this is something that needs us to come down, okay needs the leaders to sit down again and ask themselves where they went wrong. For example, when Moshmua talks of employ millions of people, we remember that at the moment we have a lot of technical training institutes. And the technical training institutes, I think that was a good agenda because, you know, at the moment we have a hundred transition from primary to secondary. And then now secondary to university, okay, a lot of people are lost in between there. And now these people are the people who go to the technical training institutes. They are the people now who go to get the technical skills to become competitors, masumaris, to become plumbers and the IT guys. And I think we would continue that trajectory because when you look at the incomes that we get as a country, the foreign exchange, I think the second highest foreign exchange we get as a country are from Kenyans who are working abroad, the foreign… The remittances that we give. So if we could have such huge expertise, they could get employment both in the country working in, you know, in the housing as you say, working in the food security in Garana project and other project. For example, at the moment, over two million Kenyans a day are not sure what they will eat today. So Kenyans at the moment we have food insecure. When you look at the kind of expertise we could have exported and then we could expand now the foreign remittances as a country. So I think our country's trajectory, we were headed to the right direction until we changed the priorities. And I think that is what Sankoka is saying, that leaders need to come and sit down and see where we went wrong and then we can make a few adjustments here and there because they say kosa si kosa. So I think Moshima Sankoka has very varied points. The big four agenda was a very wonderful agenda but in the middle plan we have now another priority called BBI and in the middle of pandemic the leg is still on. Okay, fair enough. Now John, before you weigh in towards as Onarabu Sankok was saying in regards to the Kazimtani initiative, I wanted to listen in to what Presenter said because that's where actually it began in Pumwani where he was speaking to the Boda Boda Riders when he came up with a scheme. That's when the capital under wages narrative began. We want to listen in to what Presenter Rukinyata said in regards to the earners of wages and the Boda Boda actually, actually even with the Tivet he mentioned that, let's listen in. Also encouraged Boda Boda Riders to engage in saving schemes and to work together in order to increase capital base that will enable them expand the businesses that Boda Boda Riders can come together and become owners of capital and holders of major investments. We are encouraging them to engage in saving schemes. This comes in the wake of the launch of the Boda Boda scheme meant to bring together 1.4 million riders with an aggregate contribution of 357 billion shillings a year. Alright, so those are the Boda Boda's. Economically speaking, please expand on capital versus wages. Yeah, so the President's agenda and address on that was actually it was for the Boda Boda Riders and the Boda Boda Riders is just an example of the micro and small enterprises that we have but just as you have realized, they have caught the attention of the President himself because what they get from that business is a huge deal every day. It is actually in terms of billions. But then you come to realize that now they want to, it's like an empowerment program so they want to give them an opportunity not just to be getting the 200 shillings per day and that's the end of it all but they want to add value to the whole production process the whole process and the whole journey of a Boda Boda rider and according to me the saving schemes is very, very much important because you realize that when somebody has a structured way of doing business of undertaking their own endeavors it helps them to be more impactful and not just that but also it opens doors for them because what we are focusing on here is accumulating as much capital as possible at the moment you have capital you have dominance and you have influence you look at this conglomerate of businesses and business groups that we have across the world it's because they have a huge capital base including the banks that you see around and even when we come to Kiyangalia the people who have their well to do one thing that is usually a common denominator is that those guys have a huge capital base and so they call by the president to actually bring the people together it's more of collaboration, synergy and partnerships it's very much important it's like when I am alone I'm not able to do as much as compared to bringing other people who are actually in the same line but then of course there is need for we have seen time and again where those schemes end up to be pyramid schemes so it becomes chaotic because the people who are also managing the money the resources could actually be I don't think it would be any different from what we see in the government money that is meant for the common monainty now is diverted to other platforms and portfolios and in the same regard when these border-border riders have been brought up together I know they have their own circles and the leadership platform but do you think we will be breeding another system of cartels in the market industry? Absolutely I think also to a great extent the government is also looking at a way of eating from these border-border riders remember when you look at the amount of money that comes in through this industry we ask ourselves as an economy what is it that we are getting from it so when you bring in regulation one of it is actually having a structured form of business bringing structures policies and in that you will be able to see that at least the government now introduces you hear there is a certain tax because the government also is looking for an opportunity to actually get in the other thing that you have actually mentioned is about the cartels and that is not far away from reality that is exactly what will be happening it's actually a bomb whose time is yet to tickle down All right because I know these things happen they say it's a critic statement when you see the government interested in something of course there could be more to eat to add on that a little bit just like what I said earlier that the territory this country has been having has been focusing on the job and I think now they have taken some lessons from the economies that are developing for example Indian Bangladesh you have as a government you have also to invest from bottom to top when you see the president meeting the Bada Boda writers those are people who are the top level chain when you see him going to launch I don't know some things in Maniwani from youth with IT and other styles when you see them talking of changes in the tea industry you have also on the talks of guaranteed minimum returns for farmers in tea, coffee, mirah and other styles so I think there's a good trajectory that going forward we should invest more on the people who are at the bottom of the chain going upwards and I think that is something that the deputy president has been saying and I think that's a good idea when you talk to a good number of economists they will tell you this is a good idea because the moment the person at the lower chain is empowered this thing now will trickle up because more money in the pocket he has more spending power alright while it has been mentioned of transforming the young people from earners of wages to earners of capital one of the ways people are asking is how will this be achieved because majority of the young people are not employed and of course when it comes to starting up a business you will need capital but even so why don't we just listen into what president had to say in regards to this particular statement the genesis of it all how he will transform the young people from earners of wages to earners of capital let's listen in Rates of taxation youth empowerment also took center stage with the president denoting his objective to shift the country's young people from being earners of wages to earners of capital leveraging on capacity building we have worked hard to give youth self esteem and a sense of purpose and we have done this because dignity comes from self reliance and a sense of contributing to society if the youth are given a sense of national importance they will own the country and guard it jealously as active shareholder so the youth will be transformed from the estate to having money and you have given as examples of an example being the Boda Boda now how else how else can these young people stop being earners of wages because tuna fanyangabi barua anyway kazi amje goni ki barua how now do I start managing my own capital as in where do I get it if the president says I am being transformed from being an earner of wages to owner of capital where do I start because most of people will be like ah the president had an example of Boda Boda I was thinking of someone in the Jua Kali or maybe someone who you know even where are we how did the president speak to them so like there is a sense as young people we also need to come to understand that rum was not built on a day so lazima to jikazapia we know that yes we want to get there we want to get there at the top we want to drive big cars we want to do all that but then we also need to understand that it's actually a process so that by the end of it all year one you are here year two you are here but of course in the next five years you might not have really done a lot but then you could actually umemek progress that's the term to use here progress is the key and I think as young people we need to come and understand we need to come up and understand that the will needs to come from within as far as the government is doing all that there is also a sense and there is also a part in which we need to come to a point where we know yes this is happening but the will needs to come from within the desire to actually succeed because many times we've had also stories of complaining everyone is complaining but then we also need to ask ourselves to start off how are you going to start off because the start off is an individual question otherwise the government will not come and the 70% of the young people that you have around the country can come and tell you one guy get this $1000 get this $100,000 and start off your business so the will and the drive needs to come from within as an entrepreneur because let me tell you we have had entrepreneurs even these stories that you hear of people who have made it in business people who have made it in the industry it is not that they woke up one day and they found themselves up there no no no no it is a process they started with nothing but they build on what they had what is it that you have you have an environment around you in your estate you can mobilize the problem you have is that everyone wants to work in an office you have a market around you and through that you have a clear business strategy through mentorship, through guidance you can be able to grow in that area and I think that is very clear and that needs to come it needs to sink among the young people that yes we are talking about the government pursuing and creating an enabling environment but the fact will still remain and what is this fact that it is an individual responsibility these billionaires that we see these people who have made it in business politics, entrepreneurship and all that they started somewhere and out of that they were able to grow again and I will ask you what is it that you have whatever you have fair advantage of market and you need to identify a niche you need to identify a gap in the area that you want to operate in perhaps it is clean water why don't you rally together as young people around you around your area and pursue a project because once you have the vision then the resources needs not to become a problem so when you have the vision you need to clearly outline how you want to achieve this vision because you are here and you want to get there so this journey is what we call strategy and now the strategy comes in handy because young people will be able to sit together, discuss and think it's not just about young people meeting and taking Mira and all that it's ok, it could be a hobby but then we are asking ourselves in those small meetings that you have as young people in those jobless corner zones are you hopeless the state of the country we feel helpless we feel hopeless but as an individual what is it that you can do and I think we need to come to those conversations because those conversations are important as far as we are pointing fingers at the government the government will not come and bring food on your table you are the one to actually pursue we have had success stories my friends around my circles they have done tremendous projects in their communities but only getting something but also they are creating impact exactly I want to echo his words that here that we need to seize the moment as the youth and do something and for example as an article I wrote in the staff and I wrote that article after doing a heavy research that the next billionaires will come from agribusiness that is what you are saying as a youth we must get out of our comfort zones and try and do this tear some marks dirty works because for example at the moment we have these common markets that are being opened and Kenya has I think a city coming up with Africa there is something an agreement and that Africa over one billion you also have another one with China UK so I think this product like Carlos Paltre generally agribusiness helping a lot of young people and I have success stories I can point but also now speaking on unhonest perspective the government has done a little bit for example this year you are ranked number 3 on east of starting business for example starting a business name that in two days company in seven days there is access to funds there is wezo fund youth enterprise fund there is the biashara fund that is in the program now but now the problem that the government the problem the youth face is for example now starting the business itself you need a lot of licenses left right and center that is very very expensive number 2 also for example for those young people who have decided to start companies which are quite a number and they are trading with the government doing tenders and other procurement opportunities the issue of pending bills has really affected a good number of them and you see that at the moment because most of these funds I read that most of these funds are loans so the moment the government keeps you for five or three years without paying you you see that now even the bank will come to auction you these are some of the things that the government must improve but also as youth let us see the moment and do something actually I want to engage you on that there are policies there could be more policies to better this but going by the president's word do you think we have political will to see this actually his time is almost actually in Asia too but now do we have political will to see what the president says or what the president dreams of the young people comes to be by passing these policies that will provide favorable opportunities unfavorable competition for young people to do business I think yes maybe the president means well but the people in offices have no good will for example we look at now the issue of the public procurement and asset disposal act it clearly states that the tenders in each and every government MDs the ministerial department agencies should give at least 30% 30% of the tenders or procurement opportunities to the young people but what is happening is that one has not been the arrest when you look at a treasury report of last year I think there is a small number of youth benefited and the other number goes to the old people and number two just as my brother talked to cartels in the industry you'll see that an example is the COVID billionaire you'll see that there came something that was procurement that was an agile kind of thing but you'll see now that this big man go to register a company for example I am used to register a company because I am a youth but they are the real owners so for example if anything happens the state will come for me looking for money but now the big people took the money so I have nothing so I also think that the industry has a lot of corruption and cartels in general there is no good will so we need to implement these policies and have a good will and I think if that is achieved we have a good vision and I think this country will be tremendous you spoke over young people understanding the times and it's a personal responsibility other than the attitude that we have kuchagua kaji mimi siwizi finiaivi nani aoshiwa magari what else is an impediment to the young people embracing the times and doing something to bring food on the table and maybe making their lives better so basically I think apart from you manada kuchagua kaji what I would say is actually that the environment is actually not also favorable so that ideally the work of the government is to to create an enabling environment the work of different stakeholders who come to play because like I said stakeholder engagement in any sector is very important so that you are telling young people and graduates go and try and do something self-employment but you don't start from nowhere but you need to have a structured way that's the thing that I'm saying so stakeholder engagement comes into play so that these industry players they are supporting you is actually supposed to be doing is to create an enabling environment for the young people and that's what we are saying that has not been created for a period of time like now you see look at where the government is insisting on issues of procurement laws 30% been given to the young people women and people living in the disabilities that is far fetched I mean it's not something that is happening whatever is happening is actually young people are atikun comes and tells young people you're going to register business in your name but I'm actually the one to deliver those standards and all that and I think the enabling environment comes into play but also the other thing which I would actually emphasize is the issue of parenting parenting comes in hand because we don't learn these things at school to begin with alright I want you to hold on that thought we take a very short break then when we come back we expand on that and we look at the reactions of different people then we'll be winding up we'll be taking a very short break please stay with us we are continuing with this conversation of transforming young people from anas of wages to owners of capital thank you for staying with us you're watching OY254 TV we are on matters politics transforming young people from anas of wages to owners of capital I'm speaking to John Wangaichia can you interfere with youth council and John J. Muati Executive Director of Transcending Africa Leadership Foundation and before we went on that break John you are telling us it also boils down to parenting yes the impenement talking about what could be the limiting factor to ensuring that you have youth who are actually aggressive in terms of being owners of capital and that is parenting because I realize that where we come from we come from a point where as we go out to the whole world to the world we face a culture shock because what we are told by our parents go to school earn a good grade get into a good college get into a good university earn a good degree join the labour force so the culture that has been there has been largely contributed by the parenting by our parents and also the society and I think it's a high time that we embrace when we were growing up and you hear somebody wants to be a musician somebody wants to be a DJ and we assume that that is not something that can actually talk about something that is decent and something that is decent is like you the way you are with a good time and people now have respect to that unfortunately somebody who is you compare perhaps the salary that you get and somebody who is actually doing some welding and somebody who is you know mizigo something that you don't need a degree to actually do what you need is the right attitude so parenting has contributed to poor and negative attitudes towards some occupations so you are naturally predisposed negatively against some occupation so I think it's a high time even as we bring up our children parents and leaders they need to instill these things that's how the competence-based curriculum comes in handy because even as you go to school you've actually been told that farming farming is as good as somebody who is sitting in the office because we need to feed our nation we need to feed those people who are actually going to the office I want us to finish up with listening to some of the reactions of members of parliament from Migori and KJ from I think it's the Great South what they felt about the state of nation addressed by president to Kenyatta what they made of it and ask here what did we gather other from the particular statement that was made if we could listen into what they had to say President has talked about very many issues but I would say that he has very eloquently stated where the problem is as Kenyans we know what maladies are ailing us the question now coming out of this pitch is whether we are offering the right medicine for the maladies that have been diagnosed because he has talked about all the maladies that Kenya is suffering from up to and including the new maladies of covid that has hit us the question is are we applying the right sebum the right medicine the right panacea for these maladies for us to be a stable economy then we need to be more producers than consumers I think that is a powerful message that I would like to re echo to all Kenyans that it is high time we stopped thinking that we are developing or we are economically stable by importing things from elsewhere to consume it is better we produce I ever crooked our production system is we would rather produce 2. in the terms of job creation is calling upon all the youth with talents and skills and whatever they can employ to start small and micro enterprises which the government will be willing to support today 70% of our citizens are youth youthful and in a clear attempt doing the four point agenda of the president to ensure that the youth now become employers not just employees or people who live from hand to mouth they will have funds through government intervention to enable them now to be able to grow and run their own business and manufacture businesses and with the support of the government one of the key things that I as a representative of the people from Lamu county is that the president have noted the whole nation that Lamu port is progressing very well the first bud is done and the second two bud are almost complete and for us Lamu people and the cost of people this is one of the greatest milestone achievement that we will remain to to remember president ame tu shawishi ame tu umpatifadali kama nezekana tutumie pesos as CDF kwa kisha kama tu jengama shule uru di shule januari wakuna mahali pakuanda kusoma kukususengu asa mimi ambay na nikonashida yama shule na desks mimi na kisha komba nita jenga nikoshu na nita jenga shule zingine tatu kovili kwasasa na shule moja tuia sekundari we know our kids have lost one year what is it that the president is going to do to ensure those traumatized children out there who have not been at home for one year I am going to recover their one year what strategies because if you don't then recover one year it means generations to come will be behind shendu for one year by one year so we president must come out with the strategies or now we are going to recover like during the moist era you remember there was a double intake when university students back clock came because of 82 kup so those are some of the reactions from the members of parliament of what they felt regarding to the presidential address now weighing in from what they said we had a member from parliament from one from Nairobi and Migori but particularly from Migori Pamela she said production which John you kind of mentioned into now being the production system not employing being employed but employing someone else your reactions to this as we wind up there is need for goodwill I think for quite some time we've had a country where our leaders sorry that we call them leaders because some of them are just great debuters who have turned to be leaders they get in there promising us of something but they continue with the narrative the same narrative that has been there a lawmaker saying that this is what needs to be happening in this country they are crying out to who who is there to actually what is it that we can do as a country saying that we need to be more a producing country more than a consuming nation we need to ask ourselves who needs to be doing what and I feel to a great extent it's like asking a lawmaker asking what is my responsibility nima jaribu kila kitu nima jaribu kila kitu and me as a citizen what is my responsibility as far as being a producing country is concerned I need to be producing right we had farmers from wasengishu producing milk maize they have thousands of sacks in the warehouse where actually maize is being stored they are waiting upon the government to actually purchase this in through the serial boats unfortunately what happens they have long overdues in terms of what they are supposed to be paid but time and again we have seen maize being imported from other countries including Mexico maize finding its way through the port through our entry points in our country through the border points coming all from other countries in the world who have surpluses but we cannot even take care of a local farmer in our country and yet we are saying that we want to be more of a producing country that farmer has spent time in the farm they have bought fertilizers they have employed in the endeavor to become an honor of capital they have employed, they have even employed the locals to be part and parcel of the production process but then what do they need in the end they have so much maize sacks of maize they don't know where to take it from because where they are supposed to be taking it there is already a surplus it is coming from importation who are these people who are importing the lawmakers the one who has that influence is the one that is eating its own farm we are eating our own people and I feel as a country we need to clearly have demarcations on who needs to be doing what and I call upon the institutions that are actually supposed to be acting the interest of the common knowledge the point we come to a point where a lawmaker has advantage to supply things to the government yet a young person somewhere has put energy into farming into a particular endeavor but the efforts are not rewarded I feel that is very critical when it comes to issues of having a surplus a country which is actually relying on production more than importation and consumption okay, Wangai do you think we have become a man's society yes, I think to some extent we are there and what my brother is saying that the lawmaker is crying to move that is something that yes, I agree with that and when you look at a a philosopher a particular man was called John Locke he talked to a social contract during social contract during the sense that the citizens surrender some of their rights to the government and next the government now should provide for example the security you are not allowed to own a gun so upon the government to give security to you and other stuff so what I am saying at the moment we are not doing good and again I emphasize on our inverted high rack even what my brother is saying someone somewhere has a surplus of maize but someone from the top is allowed to import so we need to invert back the hierarchy so that now we concentrate those in the bottom going out because if we empower something from the bottom that farmer if the person who will farm in the country will be able to attain food security the person at the bottom if the person will be able to produce these things that we import and therefore as a country will be able to sustain ourselves when you talk of the things that Waishimua was talking about those were the four things that the president talked about changing youth from being the wage earners to owners of capital having Kenya from a consumption feed kind of a system to a production kind of a system having people poor housing it is so bad that in this 21st century some people are living in very very bad housing kind of a program whereby a country has 3 trillion budget this is now what I am saying that the priority this country has should shift and start with the people at the bottom going to those at the top and another thing he talked about was which is food secure and good health so these are things that if the president is sincere with these things just let him implement the big four the big four affordable housing the big four food security things of manufacturing and universal healthcare if we are able to achieve these things then the other things that we talk about will be rearrest so at the moment what I can say is with the ravaging pandemic as to the economic recovery protection of the citizens the other things we are not in a hurry we will amend the constitution later let us first work with the things that are affecting the common monainty alright thank you so much gentlemen for coming and finding time to speak to our audience and trying to demystify what this particular statement meant to the young people out there I trust you have learnt something from this particular discussion speaking to John Wangaichia Kenya Interfaith Youth Council and John J. Muati Executive Director Transcending Africa Leadership Foundation in Bakum thank you so much for being part of us this morning have yourself a very good day I will be seeing you again in the evening until then enjoy the rest of our program my name is Dereva Hilawe good morning


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