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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Angwenyi",
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        "legal_name": "Jimmy Nuru Ondieki Angwenyi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me a chance to contribute to the debate on this very important Bill. First, I want to commend the Minister for moving with speed to publish this Bill and bring it to the Floor of the House. It has taken years before a Bill such as this one could be brought to this House. I am glad that my colleague, Prof. Anyang'-Nyong'o, recognised that it took a long time to conceive this child. I believe the idea was miscarried several times. We need to have a body that we can depend on to seek information on the management of this country. As you know, information is the key to any management system. As we sit here today, we really do not know what the rate of unemployment is in Kenya. We are told by some faulty statistics that the rate of unemployment in Kenya is between 14 and 20 per cent, when, in fact, if you walk in the streets of Nairobi, you will think they are market places. This means that our people are not employed. That is why you can find them all over in towns. I estimate the rate of unemployment to be over 70 per cent in Kenya. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, during the referendum, you could hold instant huge barazas because our people are unemployed. We no longer have land where you can tell people to go and farm like the late Jomo Kenyatta used to tell people to do. There is no vacant land even in Mwingi which used to be fallow some years ago. Recently, the Government attempted to create new districts, but it did not know the population of the districts which were to be sub-divided. That is why, for example, Mwingi District, with a huge population of close to 750,000 people could not be sub-divided, when some small districts, some of which are refusing to be sub-divided, like Narok 1868 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES July 5, 2005 District, are being sub-divided. The basis of the sub-division was population. This is because we have wrong demographic statistics. These days, we share out resources on the basis of constituencies. If I ask the Minister or the former Minister for Planning and National Development to tell me what is the population of his constituency, he cannot tell me and yet we are sharing out resources in this country on the basis of population."
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