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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Musyimi",
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        "legal_name": "Mutava Musyimi",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, thank you very much. I beg to support and wish to thank the hon. Minister. I think it left a little concern about what we discover in terms of the state of this country. I am glad that the hon. Minister responsible for that, Mr. Oparanya is here. We have a very grave situation in Kenya. I think if one were to rate the issues we face as a nation, one would have to rate the youth question right up there, as one thinks of Agenda 4, issues of governance, the economy, use of natural resources and so on and so forth. I think this Policy, is a bit late but they say better late than never. I commend the Minister for bringing it here. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, in the 19th Century, a European thinker by the name Karl Marx told us that the key issues that affect our survival are land, labour and capital. Whereas one may not agree with Karl Marx’s diagnosis of the problem of Europe at the time or the prescription that he gave to this problem, one agrees with the diagnosis of the importance of land, labour and capital. There is one more thing that Karl Marx said that I think we always lose sight of. That was the problem of alienation. I do not think we have said enough about this problem. Any caring leader looking at our youth today looks at faces often fairly blank, of young people who feel vacuumed. They look as if they are rudderless. They have no one to look up to. They have no one that they feel they have faith in; they have no one they feel they can trust with their future. They feel misunderstood and misrepresented. This problem of alienation is a serious problem. I think that is why the young people have found themselves easily attracted to militia groups, to be involved in miraa and a lot of other anti-social behavior. I am not sure we have listened enough to the youth. I am not sure we have listened to the problems of the youth and their predicament and given them enough space as adults and as leaders to hear their problems."
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