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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, not long ago, I made a tour of all secondary schools in my constituency; that is Gachoka Constituency. I wanted to see all the Form Four students who are currently sitting for their examinations and I managed to do that. One of the things that struck me was the fear in the eyes of these young people. I kept asking myself, what is this fear telling me? Eventually, I concluded that it is the fear of the examinations. Obviously, nobody likes examinations. But, it is also because of the fear of the future that lies beyond the examinations because these young people have seen other young people before them sit for examinations and after the results are out, they have no future. The young people have no future. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the other day, I saw a very worrying footage in one of our constituencies of young men who have this problem of drinks and miraa and so on and so forth. The women are now complaining about how they are going to get children if our counterparts of the other gender are not able to look after themselves responsibly. It is all very well to sit here and accept this policy, but if we do not invest in the things that make it possible for this country to afford to look after the older people, it will not successes - if we cannot look after the young people and give them a future today, how are we going to be able to give them a future tomorrow? So, I plead and I beg, let us subsidize production. Let us invest in production as much as we can because creation of wealth is what will make it possible for us to create the social net that we want. Let us interrogate Vision 2030, let us own it, let it not just be a document of the executive. Let it come to this House and go out to the private sector, to the civil society and other people so that they can own it. Let us invest even more in the youth and let us be more concerned about the state of our young people, let us sort out our politics; our politics with the poison of tribalism and suspicion that one has come to see in this country. We must somehow get that poison out of our body politic and come out with a Constitution that will lay the foundations for the future that is bright, a future that can support the aged and a future that gives promise to the young. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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