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"content": "adherents against matatu operators on Kiambu Road. We have witnessed people being shot. We have heard of buses with passengers being carjacked, and it looks as if the Government is unable to control the situation. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the Government must come out very strongly and take a very strong stand on the issue of insecurity in this country. Investors cannot continue to come and invest in this country even if the economy is growing, and we also reduce the number of licences required for one to invest to ensure that investors can come here. Even if tourists want to come to this country, if they hear of carjackings and the shooting dead of people, they will not come. We cannot be proud of such a situation. The Government must take immediate steps to ensure that insecurity is curbed, and that Kenyans can travel around this country, knowing that they are safe. March 29, 2007 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 275 Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the President only glossed over the issue of corruption. We cannot begin to talk about how we want to curb future corruption, how the law will be changed to ensure that procurement can be done properly, et cetera, if we do not take the culprits in the Goldenberg and Anglo Leasing scandals to court. If we cannot show that we are serious in dealing with the massive corruption that took place in the past--- To date, this country has a poor record and it must be able to redeem itself. The rate of unemployment in this country is very high. My brother, Eng. Toro, has said that employment has been created through disbursement of the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) money, which is being used to source services in each constituency. That is, really, minimal. There has been no proper planning to try and create jobs. We did promise them. One of NARC's dreams was the creation of 500,000 jobs annually. If that had been done, by now we would be talking of two million jobs that would have been created. No jobs have been created. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, one of the reasons as to why we have insecurity - why youngsters tot guns, maim and kill Kenyans - is because they do not have jobs. They are insecure. They do not have a source of livelihood to count on. We must address this matter squarely. The Ministry of Planning and National Development, the Ministry of Labour and Human Resource Development and the Ministry of Finance, must address this issue. They must bring a Sessional Paper to this House, explaining how they intend to create additional jobs, so that our youngsters can have hope in the future. The question of ethnicity cannot be gainsaid. My brother, Mr. Gachagua, who is not here now, did say earlier that, yes, we need a list now of how many Kenyans are employed where and compare that breakdown with the population each ethnic group has to be able to show, proportionately, who holds what position and whether the number of positions held by people is proportionate to their community numbers. I would like to see that list being produced. However, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, some of these issues arise as a question of perception. In this case, perception is more important than the actual numbers. When you have a good lady like Jacinta Mwatela acting as the Governor of the Central Bank of Kenya for ten months and doing a commendable job and then, suddenly, you bring in one Mr. Ndung'u, who has never worked in the bank, appoint him the Governor, even though he has no experience or anything in particular to show for it, people begin to read ethnicity in that kind of appointment. That is perception, and we cannot get away from it. In fact, that particular appointment has drawn attention to the question of ethnicity more than any other appointment. Whoever had advised His Excellency the President to make that appointment was ill-advised. With those remarks, I beg to support."
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