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    "id": 1198968,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mukurweini, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kaguchia John",
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    "content": "want to invest in. We will have a project called Akili ni Mali, where we are going to empower young people to gain education and employment skills that will make them employable and be able to employ. We will make use of technical institutions like Mukurweini Technical Institution and others to promote our young people and ensure they get away from shopping centres and the illicit brew which is a great concern in the Mount Kenya Region. I call upon our Government to declare illicit brew a national disaster. It is ravaging our youth and making them useless in our community. In future, I will bring a Motion in this Assembly to have it declared a national disaster. I will propose that we fight manufacturing, production and distribution of illicit brew which has become a menace in this country. It has made our young people unproductive. It has also made them zombies in some areas. They are not able to think on their own without consuming drugs. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I will also be very keen working together with the Rural Electrification and Renewable Energy Corporation (REREC) and the Kenya Power and Lightning Company (KPLC) to ensure that Mukurweini benefits fully from the Last Mile Programme. We have very many people in Mukurweini who do not enjoy electricity at this time and age. Mukurweini is probably the second worst connected constituency in Nyeri County after one of the neighbouring sub-counties in the upper side of Nyeri. We will be working together in ensuring that every home gets and enjoys electricity connectivity. I know that if we support our people fully, since they are very hard working, they will be keen to use their God-given capacity and work hard. This will benefit and empower them. I know for sure the people of Mukurweini produce so much milk in this country. We have contributed largely to the growth and development of the economy through dairy farming. We have sweet potatoes and arrow roots. If they are properly supported and given the capacity, they will produce more and contribute to the economic growth of our country. As a country, we have to tap into the potential of our young people. I am looking at young people across the country because we are not making proper use of their capacity. We are not engaging them fully to get them to the level and potential that will contribute to our economic growth. I beg to second this Motion and hope that all my colleagues are going to get an opportunity to make their contributions today."
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