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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Musyoka",
    "speaker_title": "The Vice-President and Minister for Home Affairs",
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        "legal_name": "Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka",
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    "content": "I want to join my colleagues who have spoken before in supporting this Motion. As a nation, we have to appreciate that we live under very unusual circumstances, as Mr. Speaker himself said yesterday. Soon after the General Elections of 2007, this country became a very unusual arena in which to play politics. Because of this, our nation is still hurting as a result of the post-election violence and all that happened. Therefore, we have to congratulate His Excellency the President for the Speech that he made before this House. In fact, the only negative comment I heard out of the House was by a learned friend who is also a former Member of this House, Ms. Njoki Ndung’u. She wrote her comments in a newspaper column and said that issues to do with gender were not sufficiently addressed in His Excellency the President’s Address. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, while I may not necessarily share the sentiments that she put there, it beholves us that when we come to discuss Agenda 4 of the Serena Peace Talks, we have to take that whole thing holistically. If we are going to be serious about creating jobs for the youth. If we do not give the Kenyan youths those jobs, we are sitting on a time-bomb. Mr. Speaker, Sir, 42 per cent of our population as it stands today comprises young Kenyans aged below 15 years. These are very worrying statistics. This is because they are growing very fast. They are also growing into a situation where there is hopelessness and lack of employment opportunities. I think it is important that, as a nation, we rise to the occasion and give hope to the youth of this country. Therefore, even as we talk of Kazikwa Vijana programme which was launched by the President and the Prime Minister, I want to agree with Mr. Midiwo that we should decentralise it to every constituency."
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