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"content": " Thank you Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, for allowing me to catch your eye. My names are Walter Nyambati. I am the Member of Parliament for Kitutu Masaba Constituency in this Tenth Parliament. I stand to support this Motion, because, I think, it is very important. However, before I contribute I would like to draw the attention of the House to the fact that this is my maiden Speech. You, therefore, could allow me to make a few comments. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, first of all, I want to take this opportunity to thank the good people of Kitutu Masaba for having elected me to this Tenth Parliament. I am extremely grateful to them. I also want to thank God for allowing us to be elected to this House. I congratulate all hon. Members and say that I think that the Tenth Parliament is composed of a group of very intelligent people that this country has ever had. I hope that the Tenth Parliament will do great service to this country. For starters, I would like to urge the Grand Coalition Government that was formed to take into account the fact that it is accountable to the people of this country and it must give proper service. The Cabinet of 40 Ministers and more than 40 Assistant Ministers that is in place, has a duty to give service to this country. It must deliver service to this country. Taxpayers must get value for what they pay. I urge the Government to go out of its way and do what it must do for the people of this country. I also want to support a suggestion in this House to form a grand coalition opposition to watch over the Government. I stand to be counted in support of the fact that we must keep watch or have a vigilant opposition that watches what the Government is doing on behalf of this country. April 16, 2008 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 483 Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I think the first thing this Government must do is to ensure that our people who are refugees in our country are taken care of. It feels very sad to go out there and see how our people are suffering. That must be the first and foremost duty of this Government. They must ensure that our people have been resettled. They must ensure that our people are assisted to return and live where they were living. They must ensure that our people have shelter. It is a pity that during all this time, we have been bickering around while our people have been suffering very much. It is the duty of this Government to ensure that, that is done. I would also like to see the Tenth Parliament ensure that we have a new Constitution in place and that Kenyans do not continue to suffer the way they have been suffering due to a Constitution that does not take care of their affairs. That is a challenge to the Tenth Parliament. We will go down in history that we did great service to this country by producing an acceptable Constitution. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, our youth must be taken care of. There are so many young people in this country, qualified in different ways, yet they are not utilised. Many graduates are not utilised. Where I come from; Gusii land, there are many youths who have completed their education in teacher training colleges almost 15 years ago but have not been employed. They are languishing and are left doing nothing. The Government must take care of its people. A country like Japan has no natural resources. The biggest resource it has is its human resource. They take care of their youth. We must, as a country take care of our youth. It is important that we do not leave our youth to go out and commit crime. We must make sure that we take care of them and ensure that they access equal opportunities. The problem with this country is that our young people are not given equal opportunities. People are employed depending on where they come from or according to who they know. We should stop that now. We must ensure that we make our young people be proud of this country by doing justice to them and ensuring that they get what they deserve. We must instil in them the sense of nationalism, that they can be what they want to be and that justice can be obtained in this country. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I would like to support this Motion because it is important. Plastics have become a menace in this country. If you visit the rural areas and other parts of the country, you will find plastics littered all over, and especially plastic pieces of paper. In the rural areas and other parts of the country, a lot of livestock have died out of eating plastic pieces of paper. Therefore, the Government has to do something about it. We are not suggesting that we do away with the plastics. However, we are saying that we must regulate them. We must make sure that even the plastic containers we use are of good standard because it is in them that we store water, medicine and other things. This Motion is extremely important and I want to congratulate the Mover for bringing it to the Floor of this House. Plastics are important but we must regulate their use. We must make sure that the processing is done well and that those who produce them are accountable for the production. I beg to support."
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