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    "id": 1442972,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ogola",
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    "content": "The issue of austerity measures has come here. However, even if the different departments of the different Arms of Government went into the austerity measures initiatives we are talking about. However, if we do not as a country address the issue of wastage, we will still be coming back at where we are. This country must address the issue of wastage. As leaders, we must be remorseful, but not defensive or defiant. I saw just the other day when the Head of State was at an interview, and all Kenyans saw leadership that was not remorseful to what had happened on Tuesday. All of us saw leadership that was defiant and defensive. We call on all of us to feel with Kenyans and be responsive to the predicament of the Gen Z. A number of us, when we were coming out of college in our many professions, there was already employment letters. I am a teacher. Having completed my course, I was already registered as a teacher, having an employment letter and going to report to a school. However, that is not the situation that young people find themselves in today. When you listen to the young people who were addressing the nation while demonstrating, those were top-notch brains of this country. Some of them have been out of college for six, five to 10 years with no jobs. As we make decisions for them, let us listen to them. As I said, the Gen Z are listening and sharing widely as we talk. We assume that we know what they want. Let us not assume that we know what they want, but listen to them and be sensitive to the predicament of them. That is why after Tuesday, in accounting this Republic, I saw men that had been mobilized, wielding rungus and saying that they were inspecting the ground. They were probably looking for the Gen Z who were going to demonstrate. I sympathized with the person who had mobilized these people. Why would they come to look for the Gen Z on the streets? They are in our houses. Each one of them should have just picked a rungu and gone to their family and beat their own children because that is where the Gen Z are. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, in the last demonstrations, I woke up and found my two children had joined the demonstrations. When we looked for them, they said they must be on the right side of history. So, for somebody who thinks they have powers and want to mobilize rungu -wielding people to go and beat the young children, they could as well just beat their own children in the house. Let us not leave this to the public. The Constitution establishes institutions with structures that have order and reasonable officers that can attend to the predicament of the youth. This is because if we do not do that as institutions, then we leave it to the public. However, what happens to the public when they take charge? They have no order and probably may not be reasonable. As Kenyans, that is not what we want. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I come back to the mandate of Parliament. When we talk about the Finance Bill, some of us ask ourselves where did it come from. Basically, I remember that the Principal Secretary for National Treasury and Economic Planning himself was unable to explain aspects of the Finance Bill on national television. Yet this is the PS of the National Treasury. I saw with my own eyes an officer from the KRA who was not able to explain matters concerning the Bill on national television. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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