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    "id": 174603,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Kaloki",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Philip Kyalo Kaloki",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity. I will be very brief. First of all, I would like to thank Parliament for passing the Constitution of Kenya (Amendment) Bill. It took a week for Members of Parliament to dialogue and come up with a negotiated document. I appreciate the spirit of this Parliament. While I support the Motion to adjourn this particular Session, I find a major problem facing our country. This is unemployment and lack of training opportunities among the youth. As I go to Kibwezi Constituency and other constituencies, I know many of our youth are unemployed. Many of them, especially in the rural areas, do not have support of any kind. Also, many of our students graduating from high school and universities are joining this particular group of our citizens who are not employed. We do not seem to have a way out of this problem. We have to sit down in this House and come up with a solution to unemployment in this country. We have to come up with programmes which are likely to generate income and help the youth. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in terms of education, we have to increase our capacity to enable more students to acquire university education and increase teacher education programmes. I now want to talk about the water catchment areas, especially in Ukambani areas. In my constituency, we still have difficulties because water catchment areas are not protected. So, I urge the Ministry of Water and Irrigation to look into these areas, because our rivers are drying up. I know that it would be of some help for the Ministry to go there and plant trees. On the issue of---"
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