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    "id": 197946,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mwathi",
    "speaker_title": "The Member for Limuru",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 104,
        "legal_name": "Peter Mungai Mwathi",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker Sir, the President, in his Speech talked about upgrading of slums. It is very good to upgrade slums, but as long as those people in the slums have no jobs, we will continue to upgrade where they are but no sooner we do that, than they will go to create another slum elsewhere. It is, therefore, important that, as we do the slum upgrading, we should ensure that our youth access the jobs they require to sustain their lives and their families. Employment of the youth has not been addressed even though it was hammered out as one of the issues and policies to be undertaken by the previous Government during the 2005/2006 period. I have noted that the documents we have or the forms that people looking for employment fill have one aspect which I want this House, at a later date to address. This is the issue of filling in the tribe of the person applying for a job. I would be more comfortable if the forms required one to fill his or her nationality but not the tribe because that is insisting on where our people come from. I March 12, 2008 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 105 am yet to know what tribe a person born of an Asian father and a Kikuyu mother would fill in that form. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to talk about the issue of roads, having had a background in the Ministry of Roads and Public Works. This is an issue that the President touched on in his Speech. One time, there were people who were blacklisted as \"cowboy contractors\". While I was in the Ministry and even up to now, I do not know what happened to them. There was a good attempt to ensure that we only had good contractors getting jobs. However, no sooner did the hue and cry come out, than they somehow performed some marvellous jigs of puzzle that made us forget about the whole issue and we do not know where they disappeared to. I still believe that those people are somewhere within and they are the ones constructing bad roads. I, therefore, propose that once we have people who have been blacklisted, be it on road or building construction, that this House gets to know their names. Once the blacklisting is lifted, we should also get to know why it was lifted. Mr. Speaker, Sir, as I conclude, I would like to take cognisant of the fact that there is a Bill on Organised Crime that will come to this House. The Bill will seek to address issues concerning people who organise themselves into gangs to fight other communities. That will be a Bill to be dealt with by the Tenth Parliament because it is upon this Parliament to either make or break this country. Whatever we decide here, in this House, and the road map we set, is what will either make or break this country. I rest my case as I support the Motion."
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