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    "content": "acquired it through cramming. There is no innovativeness that is inculcated in the universities. All universities are commercial or a factory producing numbers without quality. These are the marshall plans that I am talking about. Right from the beginning, we really need to bring up young people properly. I would like to refer to our pastoral communities like the Samburu, the Maasai and so on which up to now are looking after their young people by involving them in various activities of their lives as they grow. So, the young ones grow up knowing that they are part of this community and have responsibilities. Therefore, they have to be truthful and honest. All these virtues are lacking right now. It is a time bomb. So, we need a marshal plan for our people. If it is funds, we should not have funds for various educational levels. The Youth Enterprise Development Fund has contributed whatever it was able to do. In any case, the magnitude of the problem vis-a-vis the amount provided is not the type that you can say it will create a lot of change at this point. This youth fund requires a marshal plan. What the Head of State or the Executive need to do is to pool together experts and analyze this fund and make sure that all its facets are put there at various levels and not this piecemeal policies and Motions that come here, just for our own personal interest, that I have put a Motion here. This would not help us. We are leaders and we need to think broadly. Therefore, as a Senate, we need to discuss this issue in such a way that what kind of Motion or Bill should come here that has a revolutionary impact and not a piecemeal impact. Madam Temporary Speaker, these populist Motions should stop. They are always followed by populist comments here. This will reduce the status of this Senate. As leaders we need to come up with revolutionary policies that will really address the challenges of this country. Madam Temporary Speaker, when I say marshal plans, the same applies to agriculture. We have our highly productive land being wasted because we have these small shamba systems where land keeps on being divided from five acres when the old man was there and now he has five children and each one of them must get one acre. These will also have children and the land will reduce to a half an acre. So, where are we heading to? We need a marshal plan for agriculture. We need policies that are revolutionary. It might be initially painful but eventually will lead to real results. This must also go hand in hand with industrialization. If you move people out of this shamba system and you create large-scale mechanized agriculture, then you must also have a serious marshal plan for industrialization to absorb the people you are moving out of this space. So, what we need is a marshall plan. We need revolutionary policies. We need revolutionary thinkers to be brought together by our leaders so that we can get the greatest opportunity at this particular time. We have gone through a peaceful election and we have seen what some piecemeal approaches to development like infrastructure by Kibaki’s Government can do. We can learn from that to start revolutionary and marshall plan policies that can now take us to the next level. That is the way we should address these issues and I would like all of us to arise to these things. 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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