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    "content": "and very articulate objectives. I am actually liaising with the relevant Ministries to introduce comprehensive legislation on youth economic empowerment. So, when we start having Bills and laws scattered all over; one is about polytechnic students, another one is about casual labourers et cetera, then you lose the big picture. How, for example, should this thing be linked to our objective under the social or economic pillar of Vision 2030? If you asked the Mover of this Motion, they will not tell you. My own suspicion is that, perhaps, this is a good Motion and looking at it, I think it is lifted from some of the things the minority party wanted to do if they were lucky to have won the election, but I urge them to be patient and we sit down together because the elections are now behind us, so that both the majority and the minority can input and come up, not even with a Motion, but a proper law in a couple of months, working through the relevant House Committees and produce a legislation that can be holistic on the youth question. Madam Temporary Speaker, I want to disagree with my good friend, the Senate Leader of the Minority who has just left. His ambition is that one day he will be the leader of many. He has just left. The information he has given about disparities can be damaging. For example, when you stand here and say that the richest man in Africa or in the world is Kenyan and this appears in magazines in some racist capitals--- We will not allow that kind of situation here. That sets the society apart for no apparent reason. Our policy is simple. Our countries are equal. You cannot start saying that the person with all the money is here and the person with no money is also here. That is trying to incite the society against itself. So, let us be modest. I am afraid that this is a friend of mine who has been in Government all along. He has been in successive Governments and has been a Minister of almost everything. So, he should be the last person to start bringing statements which can inflame negative passions in our society. No research has been done. We have not had bank accounts of people audited to show who has the most money and who has the least amount of money. In any case, Forbes Magazine is not the Bible or the Quran. I do not even know where they get their information from. The last two points I want to make, Madam Temporary Speaker, have to do with the economic growth of this country. That is why I am passionate. I think that the issue of youth empowerment or economic empowerment can be tackled. I believe, very strongly, Kenya can grow at either 20 per cent or 30 per cent, leave alone the double digit that the Coalition promised. Why is this? This is because other countries are doing it successively. We can grow but we need to have a comprehensive way of doing it. Secondly, we need to tap the missing links. This Motion is just about giving people loans to start businesses. Period! Is that not very helpful? I am saying that with full awareness that the urgency of helping graduates and young people so as to make it in life, in business and in their careers exists. We need to look at other issues, some of which have been highlighted here like alternative ways of transforming agriculture into a business sector as opposed to the subsidiary industry that we have. The Senate Deputy Leader of Majority talked about people from Kerio who have a lot of mangoes and yet have nowhere to sell them. There are also plenty of fish ponds but without freezers, the fish have no market. Two, without 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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