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    "id": 365252,
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    "speaker_name": "June 12, 2013 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 29 Hon. ole Ntutu",
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    "content": "Thank you hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this very important Motion. From the outset, I would like to thank hon. Juma Zuleikha for bringing this Motion. I think time has come for this country to take very seriously the youth issues. Honestly, I do not think we are serious. If in this year’s Budget we have not allocated money for the National Youth Council (NYC), then how will the youth have a forum to address their issues? Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, this august House needs to bring a supplementary budget which will cater for this important council for the youth. Otherwise, we will pass this Motion because I know no hon. Member is going to oppose it unless he does not know how important the youth are in this country. I will talk with hon. Juma Zuleikha and see how we can fix a supplementary budget so that we have this very important NYC benefiting. Having graduated from National Youth Service (NYS) recently, I am very happy to see that the youth of this country are being taken care of through this Motion. We all know the biggest problem in this country is unemployment. The moment you do not address unemployment, we are not going anywhere. No matter how many hospitals and roads we construct, time has come for us to make sure that our youth are taken care of. Otherwise, I do not see the need of having all those elections from the grassroots and when it reaches at the national level, nobody is taking care of the youth. If we have the NYC Motion passed, then we will have a forum where the youth can be organized and be taken care of Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the same thing applies to the money that we have heard about; Kshs6 billion shillings that was intended for runoff during the last election. If that money is going to be given to banks, it is the same as that of the National Youth Enterprise Development Fund which went unused because of the many bureaucracies in banks. We all know that our youth do not have securities to use in order to borrow money from banks. So, I do not see the need of putting this money through the banks whereby our youth and women cannot actually access it. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the same thing applies to insecurity. In this country we keep talking about the incidents that are happening in North Eastern, Western Kenya, Narok County and elsewhere in the country. It does not matter how much we have put into our security, if the issues of the youth are not taken care of, we might as well say that we are not ready to address these issues. This is because we all know that these incidents particularly the ones that are happening in Western Kenya – we are told and we even see them on TV, it is a group or gang. I am not very sure, but there is nobody who is 50 or 70 years old going around and killing people. I do not want to blame our youth but because they are idle and they are not attending school or tertiary institutions, anything is possible. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, most of you hon. Members know, we have just come from an election. The youth helped us to come to this House. So, any hon. Member who will not support the Motion for youth let him know that he will not make it to this House again."
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