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    "content": "change and go back home. It is us, the politicians, who destroy this country because to get your votes, you must say that you come from a certain clan, tribe or region. Madam Temporary Speaker, really, the young people in this country do not care. In fact, sometimes they do not care about their mother tongue. Some of them do not know it. We should integrate these young people and give them national values. In Standad Three, we used to be taught Civics and whenever w switched on the radio to listen to a Minister speaking, we would listen to the late Tom Mboya speaking on some issue. So, we started appreciating national issues long time ago. But the national policy which was brought by KANU; that you know now 85 per cent must come from the local community and only 15 per cent can come from outside because this is our school, we are the ones who have done harambee for this school, it has destroyed the national ethic of this country. We have turned to little warring communities unnecessarily which is dangerous for this country. So, this Motion is a good thing for this country. I thought they would learn many things; from agriculture to agro forestry to animal husbandry and all those things that can make them productive. Even if they did not get a job, a person who has learnt something about animal husbandry will go and look after two cattle and get enough milk to pay his way through. I can tell you that they can create their own jobs. There is no formal employment you are going to create for these youth but you can make each one of these young people work for himself. He will, first, appreciate himself and know that he has a skill and use that skill for the benefit of himself and the society. Thank you for bringing this Motion. You have already said that you will try and make it a Bill. When you do, make sure it is the national Government’s duty to establish these institutions as centres of training. We have polytechnics, and one of them is in my village. Only yesterday, we got some equipment going to that polytechnic. I saw very good equipment and I said; now this is equipment for furniture and for welding, but where is the money to buy the materials which you are going to use to learn how to weld or how to do furniture? This is because you do not even have money to buy the wood to cut and to make the joinery look good. You also need some steel to weld. The NYS has this capacity. I have given you a personal example of what it can do. The young people are not just a threat, but it is a time bomb. We are going to suffer as a nation, although we could very well use the young people as a resource. We should not be trembling and saying that there are very many young people around and asking what we will do with them. We should turn this into a resource and say that we have many young, energetic and skilled people who will drive the economy forward. That is what we should be saying every day. I support."
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