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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Muriuki",
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        "legal_name": "Stephen Muriuki Ngare",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for giving me the opportunity, and to start off, I stand here to support this Motion. I do also wish to appreciate some comments made by Sen. (Dr.) Kuti with regard to the way we seem to do things in our country; a sort of piecemeal approach instead of doing one marshal plan to sort out a major problem like youth unemployment. However, Madam Temporary Speaker, can you allow me to bring an issue which, perhaps, may not have been raised by any of the other speakers; which is; what is the fundamental source of our youth problem? At one time, I was in a delegation of parliamentarians in a country called the Netherlands, and at that time I was in the steering wheel of something called the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF). So, we were talking about schools, hospitals and other basic grassroots things. What came out in our discussions with the parliamentarians in that country is that, if you look at our population today, it is about 40 or 41 million. If you go 20 years back, it was about 20 million. If you go another 20 years before that, it was 10 million. In other words, the doubling rate of our population is roughly around 20 years or thereabouts. The parliamentarians of the country where we were could not understand why we need new hospitals, new primary class rooms and so on because the doubling rate of their population was by then 427 years. In other words, the classrooms they built at the turn of the century, in the 19th Century, are the same classrooms they have; they have no need for new nursery schools and they have no need for this or that. Madam Temporary Speaker, what I am saying is that one of our fundamental problems with our youth is that we are producing too many of them."
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