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    "id": 342852,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Wamalwa",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 148,
        "legal_name": "Eugene Ludovic Wamalwa",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. Judging the mood, I will be very brief. I just want to congratulate my brother, hon. Namwamba, for the very able manner in which he has taken over his new duties at the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports. Indeed, sports is a universal language. It is a language that unites and promotes national cohesion. To have a law in place to promote talent in sports, is encouraging. This Bill is overdue and I just want to thank my brother for bringing it. Yesterday, I was in Mombasa at a conference where we were looking at the issue of the elections and the preparedness of elections. I had been given a topic to address the conference on the Agenda 4 issues. We came to the conclusion that, indeed, we have done very well on the first three items of stopping violence, settling Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and restoring the civil liberties. The Judicial and electoral reforms have gone very well. But under Agenda 4, there was an item of youth and employment that was marked as a ticking time-bomb in a nation that has close to 70 per cent of its population being youthful. Unless we do something to ensure that this huge population is not idle, unemployed or hopeless, we might be awaiting another spring that we saw bring down governments. Although we are unable to create the over 500,000 jobs that we promised the young people of this country way back in 2002, we can, through sports, tap this talent. We need to develop facilities. There are many young people in all the estates who sit idle, join illegal gangs and resort to drug abuse. If we had developed sports facilities like gyms and others in the estates that could engage them and tap this talent, we would avert the problems that we"
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