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    "id": 199427,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Angwenyi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 326,
        "legal_name": "Jimmy Nuru Ondieki Angwenyi",
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    "content": "Unfortunately, the youth are found in a web of crime and some of them do not know what they are doing. Some of them have even been arrested without committing any crime at all. Some of them have been arrested and butchered because they have been found in a web of crime. This is because they are idle, reckless and active! They are potentially active because they have a lot of energy in their bodies. If we pass this Policy Paper and implement it, then we will be able to handle cases related to groups such as Mungiki, Amachuma and others, which are said to be committing crime. How would an old man like me be involved in crime? That would be very rare. I would not be involved in crime, especially violent crime. However, for a young person, because he has to fend for himself, he could be easily involved in crime. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have not provided recreational facilities for these young people to release the energy in their bodies. This can be compared to buying a new car and keeping it in your garage or driving it at 10 kilometres per hour. You feel the energy of that vehicle. We have not provided adequate facilities for them to recreate such as in sports or athletics. Some of our youth are abused by foreigners. I hope that when we pass this Policy Paper, we will enact a law. I hope and pray that Kenyans will re-elect a majority of the hon. Members in this House so that we can implement this policy and outlaw any homosexuals from visiting this country. They come here and abuse our youth including our boys. They are teaching our youth bad habits. The youth are easily exploited because they are poor and some of them have not gone to school. Even those who have gone to school are poor. Therefore, they are easily exploited by those foreigners who \"import\" bad morals into this country. So, I am sure we will address that issue. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have not really encompassed---The Minister has done a lot by building up the Youth Enterprise Development Fund and disbursing it out to our youth. Although it was not much, it is something which we can start with. So, we should give more opportunities to the youth to direct their energies and abilities so that this country can develop even faster. If the six million youth in this country, who are unemployed and do not have any opportunities and cannot hawk their wares in the streets of Nairobi or in any other town, were to be given opportunities to release their energy, for example, by hawking their wares, or by participating in sports or by being employed to dig canals or to remove water hyacinth from Lake Victoria and clean other lakes and to do the roads and dig boreholes; this country's growth rate would double even to above 20 per cent per year. That would be a miracle like the one that occurred on Sunday! Those people who thought that Mr. Kalonzo would be riding on a donkey found out that he was riding on a very luxurious horse! That is the same way the youth would lead this country, if we were to give them opportunities. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, finally, I want to commend the Minister. He is a youth and he has shown interest in matters pertaining to the youth. I hope when he is re-elected, he will be given the youth portfolio but with, maybe, a wider mandate, so that he can develop our youth. With those few remarks, I beg to second."
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