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    "id": 383966,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. G.G. Kariuki",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 330,
        "legal_name": "Godfrey Gitahi Kariuki",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, first of all, I would like to congratulate the Mover of this Motion and I believe her Motion is not cheap as it has just been described because it has given us an opportunity to say what most of us have said. I do not think there was any other forum where one would have stood up here and started speaking aimlessly unless there is a Motion of this nature. There I think I need to thank her once again. However, having said that, I think Senators are going round and round because they are not sure whether to oppose or to support the Motion. I think the message has gone to the Mover that this Motion may not go through because several Senators have given their own views and they are unlikely to support the Motion. So, I think it is up to her, perhaps to decide whether she wants to proceed or not. She could postpone it and perhaps get another opportunity of making it broader as the Senators have requested. Madam Temporary Speaker, this matter is very involving. First, we do not know where the figure of 70 per cent of unemployed youth came from because I do not think that we have that figure. We have never had the correct figure in this country. We cannot say exactly how things are. Seventy per cent is a very huge number. We should look at this problem differently. You can provide the youth with a lot of money and also give money to women enterprises but you should ask yourself, under which environment are these youth going to develop their businesses? The country is confronted with a very serious problem of insecurity and that is why you see people concentrating in Nairobi and other urban areas where they can at least feel a little bit secure. For example, if this country had enough security to protect our people, these youth would have gone all over the country to look for jobs. But because of insecurity, they cannot move. We have to change the attitude of our politics. For the last many years, we have concentrated on cheap politics; just wanting to feel that our brother or sister is now the President or a Member of Parliament. We have forgotten that we have a bigger responsibility. We can have as many Presidents as you wish coming from your area, but if there is no security and the politics of the country is not stable, then you are not going to attract anyone. If you want to get more money for this kind of development, who is going to invest his money so that the youth can get whatever is left out? Where do we collect this money to the tune of Kshs6 billion? These billions are coming from the people who pay tax. Do we have enough people to pay tax and why do we not have them? These are questions we need to ask ourselves. Madam Temporary Speaker, first of all, we need to create political and economic stability in this country. How do we achieve economic stability? This is when you become fair and when you have strategies for the future of this country knowing very well that you are swimming in a very deep sea. We have to make sure that our youth will be able to swim out of this dangerous sea that we are all swimming in. Several questions need to be asked by us as Senators; why are we in this situation? Has it just happened because we came here as Senators? Has it not been there 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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