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    "content": "I would also like to congratulate the youth of Kenya for conducting peaceful elections at the end of last year to come up with the leadership of the National Youth Council which reflect the face of Kenya. Unfortunately, they have not been facilitated to do what they needed to do. Therefore, they have not been able to do what they are supposed to have done. As we all know, the youth of this country comprise a large proportion of our population. The youth of this country have great potential. We can only see what they have done. They have done us proud in the area of sports, for example. I remember what the youth did in 2008, during the Olympics in China. I remember those Olympic Games and feel very proud. I would like to really thank them. The youth have a lot of talents in areas of innovation and science. Some of us, who have been teachers, will remember the National Science Congress that is held annually, and the innovations that our young people show. I would like to thank the former Minister for Higher Education, Science and Technology for establishing a fund which encourages young people who have talent to develop those talents. We have also seen the contribution of young people in technology. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we are also saying that when it comes to technology, they are the real digital people. For example, in the area of Mpesa that has greatly revolutionized the financial money transfer sector in this country, it was discovered by the youth although they may not have been given the respect and property right. They may not have been given due recognition and those are some of the things that we would like this National Youth Council (NYC) to be supported for. We support our young people to show their contribution and benefit from what they contribute. I would like to say that we need to support the young people. In my constituency, I started – and I am not showing off – schools that gave a second chance to young people to go back to school. Some of you will have heard a school known as Ngukureti Secondary School where young people who may have been married early have gone back to school. I am proud to say that we have done so well. I have a mother of four, a young person who is now in university and she got a scholarship because she got a second chance. So, hon. Members know that they can support the young people. I appeal that even the money that was put aside to support the young people; the money that would have been used for a run-off, let hon. Members of this House be given the money to manage because they know the young people in their constituencies and counties. They understand county members and constituency members. They know the needs of young people and we can develop and support the young people of this country, so that they can contribute to development and nobody will say they are here to do useless things that do not help them. They are frustrated but I am a believer of the potential of those young people. So, I also want to suggest that the young people---"
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