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    "content": "refuse. We will have discharged our functions as a Legislature. So the issue of urging should completely be done away with. What do we do because these days, there are many institutions that have been mushrooming without the requisite mandate of the Ministry of Education? That is simply because there is a lacuna. We have so many institutions at the top and bottom but, in between, we have allowed crafty business individuals in the name of commercial colleges to take the place of technical institutions. Once we legislate this, some of those institutions will have no relevance and we will be empowering the youth who constitute a substantial number of the population of Kenya. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to go back to the issue of insecurity. We have unemployed youth. They have no opportunity. Let me say that we have misplaced opportunities for them. This is a very dangerous issue and today, for us to attract investments - foreign direct investments and local investments - this country must be secured both in perception and in reality. For us to achieve this, we must create relevance for the youth and one of the ways to do so is through an enactment of the Bill through this procedure that is being suggested in this Motion. The sooner we domesticate this, the better. We will have a revolution like the one which we have seen through CDF. Since you have been in Parliament, initially people were skeptical. Even the Executive did not want to imagine how the CDF was going to work. But I can tell you today representing a constituency that has been marginalized, the much the CDF has done over the last ten years is more than the combined efforts of the colonial regime, the Kenyatta Regime, the Moi Regime, the Kibaki Regime and the Kibaki/Raila Regime. That is because for us, the CDF was the beginning of life. It was the beginning of development and if we elect this, I am sure we will have created another opportunity for the youth. It is because of this that today I stand firm as a proponent and true believer in devolution. I believe in devolution but I also believe in the existence of CDF at the grassroots, not as a component of devolved governments under the governor but as a component of devolved governments directly under the Legislature. This is one thing you must be ready to protect jealously because CDF has done great. With this, I want to say that, please, help us to translate this into a Bill so that, as a Legislature, we will have discharged our function of legislating."
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