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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Wambugu",
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        "legal_name": "Clement Muchiri Wambugu",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this chance to contribute to this very important Motion. I rise to support it. It is very sad when we stand and say that we are being given a chance to go back to our people to be with them and then some of us flatly say \"no\". It is a very serious issue. I came to Parliament after being elected by the people of Mathioya. Up to now, they are still asking: \"What is happening? Our man has been hiding in Nairobi.\" This is because there is no time to be with them. We would like to go back and touch base with them. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we came here in January. There were a lot of problems as we all know. Issues to do with the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) came up. Even up to now, to say the truth, these issues have not been cleared. We need to go back to settle our people. I know that some of the people here in this House were never affected, but I feel very sad that I can sit here in Nairobi when my people are still suffering. We need to go back and settle them once and for all. There is no way we can initiate development projects while we are here in Nairobi. We need to go back, listen to the views of our people and know the way forward. The Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) money was just released recently; just about two weeks ago. Many of the hon. Members have done nothing with that money. They have not even been able to distribute that money to the various projects. Let us accept to go back and do that work. There have been a lot of strikes throughout the country. Very many schools were burnt down, yet we sit here in Nairobi and even do not know what is happening. We need to go back and be with our children who are now breaking for their holidays. We need to talk to them and know the reasons that brought these strikes. As late as yesterday - and it is very sad - a university went on strike. None of us here has even talked about it. We need to know what happened, yet we still insist that we need to sit in this House and talk about other issues, when we have forgotten about our children. Let us be genuine to ourselves and our people. Let us go and be with our children, so that we talk to them and teach them the proper way. This is because what our children are doing in schools is an indication of what is happening in our houses. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have talked a lot in this House about issues relating to the youth. If there is something that we should talk about more in this country, it is the issue of the youth. We need to go back and organise the youth groups, so that they are able to use the Youth Enterprise Development Fund (YEDF) money wisely. There are very few of us here who have been able to do that, especially the new Members of Parliament. We have been given permission to go and be with the youth and organize them, so that what we witnessed last year does not happen again in this country. There is also the Women Enterprise Development Fund. Majority of us here are always talking about other issues like the Kenya Railways and Kenya Airways. But how does the women in the village benefit when we talk about Kenya Railways and Grand Regency Hotel, when they cannot even access the basic Women Enterprise Development Fund (WEDF)? Let us be genuine to our people. Let us go back and teach them about these things. But as long as we are here, we will have a repeat of what happened in January. This is because our people would be saying: \"There is nothing that the Government has done. Those people just sit in Nairobi in that House talking about funny issues like Grand Regency Hotel, Kenya Railways and other things. 2466 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES August 7, 2008 Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, with those few remarks, I beg to support."
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