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"content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, it is extremely important that we take care of our youth. Any country or nation which cannot take care of its youth is doomed! The future of any country belongs to its youth and, it is for this reason that, the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports must be given enough money to do business in this country and take care of our children. Those are our children; they are the future of our nation and it is imperative that we give them enough money. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, it is such a shame that we are giving them only Kshs3 billion! What is Kshs3 billion when we have our children languishing at home doing nothing? It is important that the Government begins to plan for the children of this country. We know the Government knows how many students we produce from universities, colleges and secondary schools. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, so, it is extremely important that planning must be done. By so doing, we will not only allow our children to dream of a good future that they must be having. We will let them believe in the beauty of the dream that they are dreaming. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, for our children and the youth of this country to be patriotic, the Government must be seen to be fair in all spheres. We must give them equal opportunities! Our children, whether in schools, employment or whatever else, must be given equal opportunities! They must know that they are Kenyans. It does not matter which part of the country they come from. They must be given equal opportunities! Once we do that, that is the only time our children will now begin to appreciate that they are Kenyans. They will begin to appreciate how important it is to be patriotic. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I, therefore, want to submit that we will not ask the Ministry to do anything because there is nothing they can do with the little money we are giving them. There are many youths out there. We need to improve on polytechnics. We need to give our youths technical knowledge so that they can cater for themselves. If they become artisans, they will be able to cater for themselves. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, until and unless we ensure that the kind of polytechnics we are talking about are in every part of the country, then we will not be doing justice to the children of this country. I, therefore, want to request hon. Members to look at this issue very critically because it is affecting our children. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, if I may talk about sports and I want to thank the Minister for Finance for, at least, giving a token of Kshs1 million to every constituency for the promotion of sports. This is not enough. I want to suggest that this should be co-ordinated by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports so that we improve sports in this country. I want to urge the Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports to bring a Supplementary Budget which must be supported by every Member who has the interest of our youth at heart so that we increase the funding even to July 15, 2008 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 1825 Kshs10 billion, if we are serious about helping our youth. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I come from a community which used to excel in sports. I remember that the first Kenyan to win a gold medal in the history of this country, Mr. Naftal Temu, comes from my constituency. Subsequently, we had several other members of that community excelling in the world of sports such as Mr. Robert Ouko, Mr. Charles Onsati and others. What has happened to this nation? Why have we not tapped this talent? This is because we have neglected sporting activities. Athletics is a foreign exchange earner for this country. I want to suggest that the money allocated for sports be increased. I want also to suggest that the Ministry goes out of its way to improve playing grounds in every constituency, if we are serious about sporting activities. At least, each constituency should have one stadium. Where I come from there are no stadia. We cannot ask the Ministry to do this if we cannot give them money. The issue of soccer is a very touchy one. Soccer is the most popular sport in this country. But it is such a shame that it is totally mismanaged and the Government is just watching. I think it is important that the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports goes out of its way, at least, to conduct elections of sporting activities, especially soccer, throughout the country so that we do not have these wrangles coming in day in, day out. We want soccer to be managed professionally so that this country can regain the lost glory in terms of soccer. We all love this game and every Kenyan supports it. However, we cannot support it, when we are doing so badly in terms of international competitions. This is because of the kind of wrangles that we have throughout the country. I also want to---"
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