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    "id": 1064897,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
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        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": "without having to go to the Inspector General of Police to look for police officers to send for arrest missions. He will be able to command his force. This is a notice to all those who are corrupt, that your days are numbered. There are provisions within the Constitution to create timelines for resolution of corruption cases so that we do not have a case like the Goldenberg case which started in 1992 and is still in court. There are other cases that started in 2003 and are still in court. There has to be a timeline when these things are finalised. Finally, regarding the issue of youth, the youth are our future but their issues have not been addressed adequately. About 75 per cent of our population falls within this bracket. If we do not include them within the economy then it will be powder keg waiting to explode. The promoters are therefore establishing a youth commission which will advance the youth agenda in all spheres of public and private life. When you look at all the other Bills that are associated with the BBI in terms of strengthening small and micro-enterprises, the taxation holidays on new startups for the youth and all other bits and pieces that will need to accompany this, you will see the youth have been mainstreamed into this. One of most revered Presidents of USA, Franklin Roosevelt said: “We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can always build our youth for the future.” The proposed amendments are aimed at establishing a youth commission, providing a platform for the youth engagement and participation which without a doubt will positively contribute towards empowering and building these youths for the future, and not us building a future for the youth. You saw that just the other day, His Excellency the President was in Kimathi University launching a company that is doing microchips for Japan in Kenya. In Manyani there are youths doing all manner of digital things for the world. Our future is empowered. We just need to mainstream some of these things and guarantee them in the Constitution. As I conclude, allow me to reiterate the words of the one of the biggest civil rights movement activists, Dr. Martin Luther King Junior who said: “One of the great liabilities of history is that too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change. Every society has its protectors or status quo and its fraternities of the indifferent who are notorious for sleeping through revolutions. Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and face the challenge of change.” In this regard, I wish to ask Members that we are being called upon to join this revolution, to change Kenya to a better place so that our current children and their children and their children’s children can have a place that they will say, “There were people before us who, following in what happened in 2010 took a constitutional moment, which the president has been talking about, and made our Constitution much better and have guaranteed us a future that will ensure that we will be better off than our parents.” In this regard, I wish to urge members to take cognisance of our political and constitutional challenges that we face as a country that have threatened our national unity in the past and which this Constitution of Kenya (Amendment) Bill of 2020 popularly known as the BBI seeks to address. Let the Legislature not remain captive to the status quo due to the fear of the unknown. Let us remain steadfast to the issues of the Kenyan public as enumerated in the proposal of the Bill. Hon. Members, as I said earlier, in every election cycle, it is estimated we lose a minimum of one year before and a year after. It was estimated by World Bank that the 2007 clashes cost our GDP Kshs 430 billion and we saw our growth rate go from seven to zero per cent. If we lose Kshs 430 The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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