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    "content": "know who he is – just to be thinking individually. We all see ourselves as individuals and have to survive in the terrible crowd of hopelessness. Madam Temporary Speaker, the Western world also went through these problems, but reached a point where they had to decide whether to run the country or get few individuals enrich themselves without regard to other people. Therefore, I think that the unemployment that we are talking about here is not a big issue. When your economy is stagnating and is being looted left and right by the so-called leaders, what do you expect? How are the youth going to be employed and who is going to employ them? What facilities and infrastructures are ready for them? Madam Temporary Speaker, the National Youth Service (NYS) was started very early after Independence. The late President Kenyatta had a very good idea that the only way was to start with the youth. That is why he established the NYS. Quite a number of our youth have managed to get training at the NYS. Even today, if you want to employ a driver, the first question you will ask him or her is: Have you been to the NYS? If they say “yes”, you will feel encouraged to employ them, because the kind of discipline which is instilled in them is very commendable. Therefore, it is evident everywhere that those who underwent training at the NYS or are still there, are better citizens than those who have just been living in the villages. This is what we must be concerned about. Madam Temporary Speaker, Sen. Obure and I are well-to-do people, but then, what are we doing to enable us sustain what we have for the next 20 years? Business people and those who are wealthy are so selfish that they do not see the future in the right perspective. If you leave your children with Kshs40 billion or whatever it is amongst the poorest people in a village, and expect that they are going to enjoy it, I think that you will be kidding and cheating yourself. If we want to sustain our wealth, which we have somehow gotten rightly or through grabbing or stealing, because in this country, you cannot rule out that--- Therefore, it is very important for us to rethink our strategies. Okay, we mobilized the youth during the last elections in every village, and they were taken very seriously. We said that we wanted a Government that will address issues facing the youth. But now that we are in Government, what infrastructure have we put in place to help these youth? The youth have done their job, but are we doing our job to give what we promised them? We have to copy other countries like India. India had a lot of problems before 1954. They had a problem of food and they decided unilaterally that 60 per cent of their total budget will be used to improve their agriculture. The youth in India were self- sustained in terms of food because they had made a decision and because there were nationalistic people who were in positions. But today in our country, we are looking for positions just to make money; there is no other thinking! It is a pity that this is going to continue forever. You can only feel you are somebody if you are driving a Mercedes Benz, and your driver has not had food. You still deceive yourself that this will continue; so there is no problem. On the contrary, there are a lot of problems on the way! The constitutional changes gave the youth some hope that, may be, the new Constitution is going to do something for them and they all came out to say it will be done. They still have that hope. But if we cannot do what we promised them in the next 10 or 15 years, you and I will not be in this Chamber. We will be in hiding if we are not going to do 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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