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"content": "comes up with this kind of Motion, I think, in a way, it provides a solution to this particular problem. Most of the western countries have the problem of an elderly citizenry. In Kenya the youth, who are sought by the western world as an asset and resource, are forgotten and abandoned. They end up being a problem to this country. It is high time we looked at our youth as a resource. All we need to do is to sharpen them. Let us sharpen these tools and in a few years time they will come back and help us. Hon. Deputy Speaker, the trend in this country is that the majority of school leavers in the rural areas would want to come to the urban areas. This particular Motion seeks to provide a solution to this particular problem. Let us train the youth and assist them with the necessary capital. I can assure you that they can be retained in the rural areas. I recently visited Githunguri Constituency, where I found that the community provides people with skills and capital to enable them to undertake dairy farming. If today you ask a young man from Githunguri to come to work for you in Nairobi for a salary of Kshs20, 000 or Kshs30, 000 per month, if he has a farm and cow there, he will not accept the offer. So, let us give the youth the necessary capital in order to solve the problem of overcrowding our cities with jobless youths and the emergence of slums. The reason as to why mankind decided to have government is to ensure that there is a body responsible for provision of security and other essential services for everyone. Due to the fact that for about 47 years, the Kenyan Government has failed to provide such services, including employment, the citizens have become very desperate. I think Kenya is the only country in the world where every single service has been put into the Constitution and made a right of the citizenry. We have listed down in our Constitution all the services that should be rendered to the citizenry, as a matter of right. We are the only country in the world to have done so, the reason being that our Government has failed in its mandate. If the Government had been doing its job well and taking care of the interests of the citizens, we would not be rushing to court every other day to demand that the Government provides those services, as per the Constitution. Hon. Deputy Speaker, this country is made up of very hardworking people. Where I come from, if you give a job to a young person, he will be awake at 3.00 a.m. to partake his duties. I will not repeat what my colleagues have already said but our youth are very innovative. We have seen them come up with all sorts of innovations. If we give them capital, we will gradually become industrialised. Once this Motion progresses into a Bill and subsequently becomes an Act of Parliament, the resources should be devolved. The Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) might be the most appropriate model to adopt, to ensure that the benefits reach everybody in the country. They should not be concentrated in Nairobi or in only a few areas. This is a good Motion and, therefore, we should graduate it to a Bill and support it. With those remarks, I beg to support."
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