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    "id": 1565743,
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    "speaker_name": "May 21, 2025 SENATE DEBATES 20 Sen. Omtatah",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I begin by commenting on the Statement by Sen. Karen regarding hawkers. We must realize that hawking is a very important industry in any area or society because only in hawking that you need minimum capital to be able to engage and trade. With Kshs50, you can buy tomatoes and make Kshs100 at the end of the day. We only need to find a way of regulating this industry of quick wealth generation, so that young people can engage in it. Given the low capital requirement, sometimes it is the only area where people are disadvantaged and can engage in some form of enterprise to move forward. On the question of the Kenya Rugby Union, I think, generally, sports in this country have been taken for granted. Sports is no longer just an idle area, but a major industry. In a country that is grappling with employment challenges, very huge unemployment, I think if we gave it the attention it requires, sports should move forward. This culture of utado requires that we go back to law enforcement, which is heavily compromised. The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) and the police, are so compromised that you find people do what they want and dare you. The time is coming when we should have these organizations called to book. Where there is also this rampant misuse of public funds, we should also hold to account the organizations that are supposed to do the audit. There has been a trend to think that Parliament does audits; it does not. Parliament cannot even change a comma in a report of the Auditor General. The report is final; we can only act on it. Finally, on the question of the youth bulge and the youth challenges in this country, we cannot sweep them under the carpet. Young people have no jobs, no future and nowhere to face. It is time we stopped doing the nonsensical things we are good at doing and focus on changing this country; on making the taxes of this country work for the people. We should stop theft. There is too much theft in this country, right from the top of the Government going down. Everybody is stealing without any fear or shame as the “bull of Nandi” is telling me."
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