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"content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I remember when I had a petition, during the last Parliament. My lawyer was Orengo and Company Advocates. Orengo, because of being a Minister could not manage to come to court even once. However, a young girl, Julie Soweto, saved me. Otherwise, I would have been thrown out of politics for 10 years, courtesy of the old Constitution. A young girl stood her ground in court, faced very senior lawyers like Stephen Mwenesi and literally defeated them on all points apart from one which forced me to go back to a by-election. This got me thinking that if these young people had money, then they would not be working under Sen. Orengo. Needless to say, I was represented by Julie Soweto and my son who is also a lawyer. I wish I had money to help him set up his own practice. Since I do not seem to be fairing on well with the old issues, let me just acknowledge because of old accountants in this House, that even young accountants would like to start accountancy firms. Madam Temporary Speaker, before I conclude, I would like to urge the Mover of this Motion; that you have yet another opportunity to bring a Bill. If, in the wisdom of this Senate, this Motion goes through, do not wait for the Government to provide that legislation. Just take the Motion and proceed to draft the Bill. Otherwise if it goes to the Government, they will put it on the shelves and nothing will happen. We will sit together so that we draft a Bill. We will convert the Motion into a Bill. Once the Bill assumes its own life and it is attractive, I can assure you that the Cabinet Secretary will call you to his office and tell you that he wants to take up the Bill, and almost run away with the credit. So, you still have a lot of room in which you can express your talents by converting this into a Bill. Finally, Madam Temporary Speaker, I want to use this opportunity to urge our youth to take up the YEDF. At the district headquarters in Kakamega South in Malinya Town, I have gone twice to the Youth Office, and the young man sits there reading newspapers – nobody bothers; the youth do not bother to go to the office – filling crossword puzzles and playing games on his laptop. I am not saying that he is an idler, but he has nobody to serve. I want to urge our youth to come out and go for that education. I saw something with the hon. Member of Parliament for Mvita today and I said “how I wish I had done this for my last five years that I was an hon. Member of Parliament.” He actually called all his youth and educated them on how to take these loans and broaden their thinking in areas where these investments can be. If you, Senators, think that the education in Kakamega South is laughable, then do not laugh at Kakamega South. I have gone through the statistics and I have found that as poorly taken as it is in Kakamega South, I have found that it is only Nairobi and the former Western Province where the uptake of these loans is highest. So, if a place I think they are doing very badly is being placed second, then where are you in Nyeri? It might even be worse. It is very bad. So, we have to tell our youth. The other area where the Government should, probably, play a small role is, again, the amounts of money they are giving our youth. The youth have to start with Kshs50,000 and then slowly graduate on. By the time they reach Kshs350,000, which is 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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