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"content": "Thank you very much, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I, too, beg to support this Motion. I think this is a very noble policy and one that deserves our full support. Every once in a while, my mind goes back to words spoken by the former President of Zambia. He came to Kenya after retiring and I remember an interview by one of the newspapers. He was asked what was the one thing that he regretted, that given another chance, he would have done differently. He said: âThe one mistake that I made in Zambia as President was, instead of subsidizing production, I had a policy of subsidizing consumption.â What does that tell us? It tells us that it is important to take care of the old and young and also have a very clear social policy to support those that are vulnerable. But it is even more important, as a country, to make sure that we invest even more in production and not merely in anything that looks like consumption. So, if we are to do these noble things that we want to do, I think it is very important to come back to Vision 2030 and ask ourselves the pillars that underpin it. Regrettably, that Vision is yet to come to this House although we have asked elsewhere that it be discussed here and owned by this House. I am not sure to what extent it is owned by the Kenyan people or whether Vision 2030 is merely a document of the Executive. So, it is very important to interrogate and own the pillars of Vision 2030, so that we agree together as a country on the kind of economy we want and what will drive it. It will mean that we invest in the youth even more aggressively than we are doing. This is because this same youth will be old people tomorrow. It is these youth who, through their hard work and investments, will be able to provide the national wealth that will look after them after they are 60 years old and above. It will be necessary not only to make sure that our economy is on a solid footing, but also as we all know it is even more crucial or equally important that we sort out our politics. That as we know, is the burden of Agenda Four. I do not know how much we will be able to give the required careful attention to this very important Agenda Four. I do not know whether we will rush through it and not give it the sort of approach that we ought, so that we can lay the foundations that begin to heal this nation, bring it together, reconcile our people with each other and come up with structures through the Constitution, of organs of Government that are not going to become the burden that the current organs are. We need organs, institutions and agencies of state that are functional, viable, affordable and lend themselves to efficient management of the resources of this great nation. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is going to be very crucial even as we support this Motion to make sure that the decisions and weighty matters that lie ahead of us as a nation and, especially as the National Assembly; the issues of the Constitution, Land Policy and all the other weighty matters are given fair and serious attention, and as much as possible, so that we look at the future of this country in a manner that is more responsible. If we do not sort out the politics and come up with laws that will assist this country, land policies and other policies that we want to see, it will be very difficult to have the foundations that make it possible for us as a country to support the older people. If we cannot even provide jobs for the young people, how are we going to be able to support the older persons?"
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