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    "id": 197935,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Khalwale",
    "speaker_title": "The Member for Ikolomani",
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, our youth may have sung for us during the crisis but, maybe, their agenda was different. I strongly believe that until the Tenth Parliament is going to have a national masterplan for our youth in this country--- It should be clear for a university student that when he or she leaves the university, there is a clear path that he or she is going to pursue until he is employed. If that is not done, we might not go too far. We will move from hatred against ethnic groups to class wars where hon. Members who are here, very well cushioned with security and money both at home and on the road, will find the youth saying: \"Okay! Having chased away the tribes that we did not like in our place, we now want to go for the rich within our midst.\" These are the challenges that we cannot run away from. We must address them. I know that hon. Members have already spoken on the issue of land. But I want to reiterate that there is an urgent need for us in this country to have a national land policy. We must have a new order which should include an attempt, right from homes to schools and universities, to teach our youth that we shall not always have land for all of us. People must start learning that some of the richest people in the world--- In fact, all the richest people in the world that you find in America; the ones that you read about in Forbes Magazine, are not land-owners. There are other ways of earning a living. Until we change the national psyche, people will continue fighting on matters of land. As we do so, we must not forget what we have already achieved in history. In this country, we already have the Ndung'u Report on matters of land. These are issues we could look at and implement, so that our people could stop killing each other just because of a few acres of land. Mr. Speaker, Sir, when you go to our High Court, it is very frustrating when people are pursuing land disputes. We need to develop a permanent and sound land ownership policy that has simple and effective ways of resolving land disputes in this country. I come from a community where, when you wake up in the morning and meet a friend, a relative or even an enemy, the first thing you tell them is \"peace be with you\". I was ashamed when I went back and found out that in the land of bull-fighting, where people love and enjoy peace even during bull-fighting, we could no longer tell each other \"peace be with you\". Mr. Speaker, Sir, I stand in this National Assembly to say that the people of Kakamega love all investors in Kakamega Town. I speak with a lot of authority because I live, sleep and do everything in that town. We should not in any way obstruct the police from carrying out effective investigations. I am sure, at the end of the day, we will find that in places like Kakamega Town, the majority of perpetrators of the violence against the investors did not necessarily come from our community. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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