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    "id": 212082,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Angwenyi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Jimmy Nuru Ondieki Angwenyi",
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    "content": "I am really surprised that the Government can talk about the private sector, which is minting money from our poor people, like Safaricom, which made Kshs17 billion. Half of that money will be repatriated to England. The other one is the Barclays Bank of Kenya, which made Kshs4.2 billion, and yet it is retrenching our people. Another example is the Standard Chartered Bank which made Kshs3.7 billion, and yet is it retrenching our people. We adopted Structural Adjustments Programmes (SAPs) in the 1980s. The UN Report, which came later, faulted that policy. It said we adopted a wrong policy without understanding it. The policy destroyed developing countries. We must assist our people. When we warn members of the Mungiki sect not to extort money from matatus, and yet we do not provide them with jobs, what do we condemn them to be? We condemn them to be criminals. When we ask the people to go back to farming and develop land which they do not have, how do we expect them to earn a living? There is need for the Public Service Commission to employ our youth. For instance, the Ministry of Education should employ 60,000 people; the Ministry of Health should employ 20,000 people; the Ministry of Roads and Public Works can employ about 50,000 and the security forces should take up 20,000 people. Those Government Ministries can employ 135,000 people more than we had initially, as long as this is done fairly throughout the country and every constituency gets its fair share. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we are in this Parliament, which represents the people of Kenya, including the unemployed and the youth. This is not a Parliament of those who have. It is the primary responsibility of our Government to take away a bit from those who have and give to those who do not have anything. The only way that we can do this, legally, is by taxing those people who have too much and giving to those who have nothing through employment. This method has been tried elsewhere and it has worked well. It was tried in America in 1932. It is being tried right now in Germany where they have insisted that the Government must create 15 per cent more jobs for the youth. They are tackling the problem of unemployment and insecurity in that country. This programme was adopted in Sweden such that there is no unemployment in that country. With those few remarks, I beg to reply."
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