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    "content": "out how the young people will be motivated. This is a business where a young man believes that today, he will wake up, do one round, get some little money which can buy a small bottle of alcohol, come back and do another round and so on. When you go to Kangemi today, the young people that I used to meet, today they look old because of alcohol. They completely do not know what to do. They have changed completely and now they are the ones who torment their parents. They are the ones who will even go and tell their friends that the mother has a chama and she will be receiving Kshs20,000. So, he will tell the friends that they can take the money after the visitors have left. This is how we ended up having small guns coming up. Therefore, if we want to see our country get back to track, we should not just say that it is a disaster but we also need to look for solutions. We need to ask ourselves whether we have to relook at the National Youth Service (NYS) programme with the aim of bringing it back so that young people can go through it. First of all, this will help them to be patriotic to their country and give them the motivation because they will get new skills. Therefore, these young people should be the first to be tapped on to join the police and other government employment opportunities. This way, we shall be encouraging young people to join NYS and to be patriotic to what they believe in. The other day there was a young man from Murang’a who said he had been drinking for the last 12 years. A lady from Nairobi decided to go and pick that young man to rehabilitate him so that he can even get married. That is what parents are going through. The young people are supposed to go to university so that they can become resourceful to their parents when they grow old. What has happened is that our mothers are now taking care of the youth. We also need to ask ourselves as parents whether we are to blame because when my mother accepts my 40 year old brother to sleep in her house, it is a challenge. Such acts might also contribute to what we are seeing today. Mr. Deputy Speaker, as a country, we must look at both sides and ask ourselves whether we have failed as parents. Also, the children have failed the parents because what they are doing is not right and it is not African. We also need to ask ourselves whether we have completely forgotten our culture. Is it because of facebook or internet that we are in this mess? So, we should be asking ourselves what we need to do. The President has talked about it and he is fighting it but all the leaders and even the church must now come. What happens is that we go to church on Sunday but from Monday to Saturday, we go to the clubs and drink. So, when we talk about alcohol we also need to ask ourselves, at what level? If we talk about all types of alcohol, then it means everyone has to start relooking at themselves. We are all facing problems. When you look at Kwanjuguna’s on Friday along Waiyaki Way and count the cars around there, what do you expect?"
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