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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Gikaria",
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        "legal_name": "David Gikaria",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity. I want to thank the Mover of the Motion for having brought a very timely Motion that this House needs to discuss and make some resolutions. I happen to have been one of the people at the grassroots who attended these elections. The hope of the young people when they were doing the elections was so high such that it is very sad that whatever they were fighting for has not been actualized. I am a Member of the Committee on Implementation and I will also indulge the Mover of the Motion to follow up as to whether money has indeed, been set aside for the Youth Council and establish why it has never been submitted or allocated for them to start working. Like some papers that we have just been given indicate, even last year not even a single coin was allocated to the youth. I am not a youth, but so many youths are always requesting for assistance. They assisted me to come to this august House and they have also endeavored to initiate some projects. I want to concur with my colleagues that the youth empowerment funds that are going to be given this year be given to our Women Representative colleagues and it can be channeled through the constituencies, so that we can assist the young people to continue to actualize their aspirations. Giving the money to banks is very sad. These banks have made it difficult for the youth to access these funds. I also want to agree that it is our responsibility to encourage the young people to determine their future through their own sweat and think in terms of starting small businesses at the grassroots level. It is true that the young people of this country have always been misused. For example, the people who were protesting yesterday outside Parliament, none of them was of my age. In fact, all of them were young people and they were protesting because, maybe, they do not have anything to do. So, if they are promised Kshs500 or Kshs1,000 to come and protest outside Parliament Buildings, they will do it. I saw a few lying on the sheep that they had brought at the gate. It was very sad to note that those young people are very intelligent. They have qualifications from universities. They have degrees. Other have even masters degrees but they are not engaged appropriately."
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