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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Githua Isaac Ngugi",
    "speaker_title": "The Nominated Senator",
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    "content": "committed to the protection and furtherance of the aspirations of all Kenyans for a responsive Government based on the essential values of equality, social justice, shared prosperity and the rule of law as a foundation of our shared future. I fully take cognizance of, recognize and stand committed to the protection and furtherance of the aspirations of all Kenyans for a responsive government based on the essential values of equality, social justice, shared prosperity and the rule of law as a foundation of our shared future. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in 1963 when our founding fathers and freedom fighters lowered the union jack and raised the Kenyan flag, ushering in our independence, they identified poverty, ignorance and disease as the main challenges facing the new nation. As time passes and one generation yields to another, human problems change and fade. Today, 58 years later, the challenges have mutated to unemployment and inadequate avenues for income generation, accessibility and relevance of quality education and training as well as affordable healthcare. In the ten or so months that I will serve in this honorable House, it will be overly ambitious to imagine that I will provide solutions to all these challenges but I promise that I will be at the forefront in lobbying, legislating and advocating for the emancipation of the Kenyan youth from these doldrums. I will be that flickering light that will shine hope amidst the despair. I will be that voice that will constantly remind this honorable House that out there lie 33 million youth who want a cohesive and prosperous nation. I will be that vessel ready to be used by the youth of our nation to bring forth their challenges and aspirations. I undertake to do my best to articulate the apparent and felt needs of all the youth in the entire nation, including the minority populations where the Ogieks, Dorobo, Elmolo, Waata, Makonde and many others fall. On this day as I join this honorable Senate to engage, debate and legislate with those who by the grace of our great people exercise delegated sovereign power, I assure you of being a fleeting transient phantom on the great stage of history. As it has been alluded, our youth have been missing on the table but are conspicuously present on the menu. By my nomination and subsequent taking up of the roles and duties as envisaged by Articles 94, 96 and 100 of the Constitution, I am confident that the youth now not only have a seat at the table but also the salient latitude to decide what to eat, when to eat, and with whom to eat. I must mention that as an evangelist who has crisscrossed this nation spreading the gospel and winning souls for Christ, I associate myself with the scripture in Ecclesiastes 9:11, which states-"
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