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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, we have been talking about employment, food and security. We have been talking about reforms. The biggest problem here is that we tend to expose our feelings in a violent manner. I would like to urge Kenyans to support His Excellency the President to ensure that there is always dialogue and understanding. If you want to move food on your table, you do not uproot the railway lines. If you want to have your boundaries checked properly in the country, you do not uproot a railway line. In fact, that action in Kibera did more damage to Kenya than to Uganda. This is because most of the goods to Uganda are transported by road. About 90 per cent of their goods are transported by road. However, there is a big percentage of goods that originate from Eldoret and in some parts of Western Kenya that use the railway line to Nairobi and onwards to Mombasa. So, we actually end up inflicting more pains on ourselves than the intended objectives because they use the wrong medium and action to achieve what is desired by all. A lot of things that we have to get done need dialogue, consultation and understanding that the whole country needs to move in one direction. There is one thing that is happening in the country today; this is the problem of illicit drugs. Drugs are destroying many young people. This is happening in the epicenters of tourism in Lamu, Malindi, Mombasa, and Diani and now, even in big urban centres like Nairobi, Kisumu, Nakuru and Eldoret and yet we know that Kenyans are importing these hard drugs. There must be Kenyans who are making these orders. Those youngsters in the streets or villages do not know how to get them from wherever they are manufactured. It is a shame that Kenyans of sound mind exploit our youth and in the process, destroy their future. Some of them are living like zombies. In other words, the future of Kenya is truly in danger not"
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