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    "id": 189888,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. ole Metito",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Regional Development Authorities",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Judah Katoo Ole-Metito",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I was saying that this is a very important Ministry in the Republic of Kenya. The population of Kenya is predominantly young, about 38 per cent is aged between 15 and 35 years, which is defined as the youthful age. I want to say that youth development is an on-going growth process in which all youth are engaged mostly in trying to meet their basic personal and social needs, to be safe and to feel cared for, useful and even spiritually grounded. The other objective of youth development is building the skills and competencies that will allow them to function and contribute in their daily lives. So, we should look at it as a two-component issue: the development and empowerment of the youth. Some people think that youth development is a very highly sophisticated and complicated prescription. Mostly they say that it is a process of trying to fix the \"troubled youth\", but I want to say that it is not. Youth development is about people. It is about putting programmes in place. It is about setting up institutions and systems that will provide all youth with the support and the opportunities they need to empower themselves. I would really like to thank this Ministry, because among the new Ministries---This Ministry is virtually \"young\"; it is about two years old now. In fact, it is the only Ministry I could say moved very fast to establish offices all over Kenya, and have a feel of youth virtually in all divisions in this country. Even if you look at the district allocation book, the one we are talking about, almost all districts have a District Youth Officer. Some of the divisions have Divisional Youth officers. So, they have had the feel of the youth."
}