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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Anyang’-Nyong’o",
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        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I rise to support this Motion. But while supporting this Motion, I want us to rid our minds of such myths; the myths that have clouded thinking in developing countries for a long time and which has made it very difficult to have what I call “integrated industrialization” in our nation. You cannot talk of industrialization where there is a big disjuncture between agriculture and industry. In other words, agriculture and industry are part and parcel of the economy. You cannot just deal with industry separately from agriculture, mining or infrastructure. We must see employment being created in all these sectors of the economy. The people to be employed in these sectors are the youth. The youth are defined as any human being below the age of 35. This is where the majority of employed people come from in developing economies. Madam Temporary Speaker, if you go back into history, you will find that the Industrial Revolution succeeded because of exploitation of young people, particularly children. If you read the history of the cotton factories in Manchester and that of mining of coal - if you remember the book we read in intermediate or high school, Tom Brown’sSchool Days – it was about the excessive exploitation of young people in the Industrial Revolution. I do not advocate for that kind of barbaric exploitation of the youth in our economies today, but I am only using it to remind ourselves that employment of young people must come within the economic structure of a particular nation. This Motion although is intended to give credit to youth to do something, must go a step further. Even if you gave the credit to youth, what are they going to do in this kind of economy, the way it is structured? What will they go and do? We always say, again very much romantically, that the youth will go into the informal sector. But the informal sector is an aberration by its very nature; it is an admission that the economy is not moving, in effect, ironically; people have to do certain things to survive. When you try to incorporate the 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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