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    "id": 114696,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Thuo",
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        "legal_name": "George Thuo",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in his Address, the President also touched on job creation. The Kazi kwa Vijana Programme was a very well intentioned programme that, in my estimate, failed to deliver on expectations for various reasons. We cannot throw the baby out with the bath water. Once again, there is an opportunity to salvage the situation. I urge both the Prime Minister’s office as well as the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance to consider coming back and putting in practice the lessons that were learnt from the last attempt to help our youth. Currently our youth are disaffected and dissatisfied despite the fact we constantly, in this House and in other fora, refer to them as being the majority of this country. If we cannot cater for that majority, then who will? This is another matter I would want us to look into. The President’s Address also touched on roads and infrastructure. I must say that as the Member for Juja Constiuency I am very excited by the current construction going on between Nairobi and Thika on our first express way. It is coming along well. I spend a lot of hours just looking and marveling that this is happening in my life time as a parliamentarian. I know this is true in other parts of the country. I know other road construction projects all over Kenya are going on well. Indeed, the Ministry of Roads is one of those few that we can stand and commend in public for doing a very commendable job. In fact, they are utilizing well the vast resources allocated to them in a way that"
}