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    "id": 381446,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. G. G. Kariuki",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Godfrey Gitahi Kariuki",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, since there is nobody else who is ready to speak, I think that I should push myself to say something. Madam Temporary Speaker, we have been treated in this House to all good information by those who have spoken before, especially from Sen. Kajwang. They have talked very well about the problems facing the youth and the country as a whole. We also talk about our youth being 70 per cent of the population, but nobody has ever come out to tell us: “It is true that our youth out there are 70 per cent.” That is one question that needs to be investigated. Are we talking the right thing? It is only from there that we can now start thinking of what to do. Madam Temporary Speaker, one of the speakers talked about how other developing countries are serious with their own youth. If you go by the political history of the Far East and the Eastern Bloc, you will find that in 1917, the biggest problem which happened in Russia was because of what is confronting us today; that we have given birth to so many young men and women and just continue doing so, without asking ourselves: “Wait a minute, are we really planning for them?” Nobody is thinking about that because we have lost a very important ingredient in any nation, that is, nationalism. We have ignored nationalism and patriotism. We were trained by someone – I do not The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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