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    "id": 1442710,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kavindu Muthama",
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        "legal_name": "Agnes Kavindu Muthama",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Thank you, Sen. Faki, for allowing me to speak before you. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for allowing me to speak on this Motion of the State of the nation today. I congratulate every Senator who was here yesterday. Due to the lack of a quorum yesterday, we sat and we came up with this. I thank each one of them for coming up with this. It is a crucial moment. It is a very timely moment for us to be in the House today to debate this Motion. I want to start by sending my condolences to the families of those Gen Zs who died because of the brutality by the police. Our Constitution in Article 37 says- “Every person has the right, peacefuly and unarmed, to assemble, to demonstrate, to picket, and to present petitions to public authorities.” I am so saddened by the six or eight Gen Zs who were killed while coming to Parliament to bring their petitions yet they were excercising their right. The police through their leader, the IG, have no right to shoot with live bullets. They would have used blank bullets and teargas to disperse our young people. As a mother, I was in this Senate that day. Every time I heard a bullet shot, it felt like my stomach was leaving my body. As a mother, I knew that it was a bullet which has hit a child. I did not know what to do. However, they would have been allowed just to come. We have had very many people in the Public and Speaker’s Gallery listening and bringing their petitions here, which we have dealt with. I condole with the families of Gen Z of Kenya. I also congratulate them because we are here today discussing this Motion because they came out. They are fed up with the state of the nation and how they are living as young people. I saw one of them admitted at the Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH). He said that he was shot on the back, but thanks to God, he survived. He was shot together with Eric Kyalo Mutisya who lost his life. He said that he was demonstrating because he has been looking for a job for the last 10 years since he graduated. Many of them were demonstrating because they have been tarmarcing more than 10 years. They do not have jobs. Mr. Speaker, Sir, they have all the right to demonstrate and ask the Government to provide jobs for them. There are ways of providing these young people with jobs because 30 per cent of all jobs in the 47 counties belong to the youth, women and People Living with Disability (PWDs). The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only.A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and Audio Services,Senate."
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