An MP has tabled a Bill Parliament that seeks to exempt jobless youth from presenting specific compliance certificates to prospective employers while looking for jobs.
Gideon Keter (Nominated, Jubilee Party) says if the Bill passes youth will no longer have to pay for Tax Compliance Certificates, Certificate of good conduct, Higher Education Loans Board clearance certificate, Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission clearance and Credit Reference Certificate that have been troubling them.
"Any payment should be done after securing a job. Troubling fresh graduates who cannot afford to buy food, pay rent, help sickly relatives has always given me sleepless nights but am glad that we have taken the issue to the floor of the House and will soon be done away with," Keter said Thursday in Parliament.
"Such expensive preconditions costing thousands of money is equivalent to torture to our jobless youth and I promise that we will pass this Motion without hesitation so that we stop troubling our penniless youth who need our support."
He said as a youth representative in Parliament, he will rally fellow MPs to join hands and help offset the burden on the youth.
"Kenyan youths will no longer pay for these expensive clearances," he said.