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    "content": "As I speak, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there are issues that arose from the 2007 General Election and have brought a lot of divisions amongst us. We have IDPs in various camps in this country and it is now over one year. We really have no justification why these people are still housed in tented camps as IDPs in our country. When we speak about service delivery, and there are many types of services, what Kenyan people are looking for is the bottom line of those services. No matter how good our intentions are, no matter how sweet those intentions are, the bottomline is lacking. If the services are not delivered, we will not have moved any inch forward. We will have impoverished our country further. Therefore, I appeal to the House to have passion and resolve to provide services to the people of this country. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the issue of insecurity has been raised by various hon. Members who spoke before me. I want to restate that we have various well-funded security agencies in this country. However, we have a situation where our security agents are behaving like pathologists. I am not demeaning pathologists, but I am aware that pathologists are only consulted by the dead. If we are going to approve money in every successful Supplementary Budget to the security agencies, then they must be there to protect ordinary Kenyans. We should not be discussing events that have taken place yet we have lost lives. We cannot, at this stage in life, really look at a situation like the one that happened in Mathira Constituency where 29 people were killed and we were being informed after the event. This just shows that even for cases like the one of the Migingo Island, we only came in after it had been taken. We were not even in a position to go in because Ugandan forces had already invaded the island. That shows that we are coming in after the horses have bolted out. We must put emphasis that the security of every single Kenyan in this country must be protected. We must ensure that there is no more loss of lives arising from insecurity. In his Speech, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the President spoke about the youth. The youth of this country form the majority of the population. In fact, as we speak, 15 million Kenyans are under the age of 15. Whereas I appreciate that we have continuously allocated money for Free Primary Education Programme (FPE) and Free Secondary Education amounting to Kshs150 billion, we have not invested any money worth any significance to the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports to create employment, despite having paid Kshs150 million for their education. I am appealing to the Government that for us to appreciate that we have educated our youth by spending Kshs150 million, we must allocate more money for the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports to create employment for those youths who have been educated from Standard 1 to Form 4."
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