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"content": "Yes. Members should take my words seriously. There is prophecy. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I am very proud to second this Bill that I have sponsored together with Sen. Farhiya. I thank Sen. Farhiya because she has shown such great diligence and commitment to her work as a Senator. That is why she was automatically elected to be the Deputy Whip of the Majority side. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, she is always the first one in the House and the last one to leave after the Speaker. We want to appreciate her effort. Sen. Farhiya, myself and the Temporary Speaker were both nominated once. When we were nominated, we were very diligent. That is why Sen. (Dr.) Mwaura is on the Speaker’s Panel because of what he did as a nominated Member of Parliament (MP) and even now as a nominated Senator. I was a nominated MP. I sponsored Bills in the National Assembly. The 30 per cent Procurement Law that we have today, I am proud to have sponsored it in the National Assembly, where women, youth and PWD get at 30 per cent of the procurements. I am proud to have sponsored the National Employment Authority which has been set up. In as much as it is moving as fast as it should, it exists and it has got a budgetary allocation. In the last Parliament, as a nominated MP I sponsored many other Bills. I want to encourage Sen. Farhiya to keep sponsoring Bills. We are here to legislate. You can amend laws. Some people will say we have enough laws. However, if we had enough laws, then we would close Parliament. We need to keep strengthening the legal framework in this country to make sure that we are assisting young people, women, economy and those whom we have been elected to represent. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, as I second this Bill where I have cosponsored, I am proud as well that this week, another Bill that I sponsored called the Startup Bill has been published. It should be coming for First Reading soon. The Startup Bill is going to look at how do we help our young people, especially in the tech startups to be able to attract investment, to be guaranteed, and for us to have incubation centres across the country because we have seen the kind of innovation that is out there. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I am not preempting debate, but I am just saying that all of these Bills I have mentioned from the 30 per cent of procurements going to women, youth and PWD I did in the last Parliament to the Startup Bill that has come now to the National Employment is themed around what I felt, for the years I will be a legislator, I would focus on. That is economic empowerment for the young people of this country. That is what I have consistently focused on. Even for those who are proposing changes in the Constitution, there is no way you will even create unity or cohesion unless we have created opportunities and equality of opportunities, especially economic opportunities for our young people. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, if our young people in this country were doing well economically in 2007, you would have no one to send to the streets to fight. If our young people are doing well economically, no politician will have a crowd to address on a Tuesday afternoon in a rally and fill Uhuru Park. The young people of this country of these counties are the trustees of its posterity. A country that is vibrant, especially in the The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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