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    "content": "assembly meeting and come back. At the moment, I cannot do so, especially during this rainy season because there is no road. On the map of Kenya, Samburu is shown as tarmacked. I really hope that in this Jubilee Government we will see that marginalization come to a close so that we can also benefit. These counties also have something that they can give to the rest of the country. You can go to Samburu and enjoy the wildlife there. You have seen Safaricom company using clips of the beautiful scenery in Marsabit. But how do we access these counties? How do investors access these counties, including those in the western part of the country? So, we really have to make sure that we end marginalization. With regard to the youth, I would like to thank this Constitution because I would not have been standing here were it not for this Constitution. I also really thank my party for sticking to the letter of the Constitution by ensuring that I am not the only youth in this Senate, but we are three of us. It shows that we are committed to ensuring that the youth are not left at the periphery, but they will contribute to the development of this nation. Having said that, it is time the youth stopped being a statistic in this nation. We should not be referring to the youth in terms of 70 per cent of them being unemployed. We should stop using the youth during the campaigns in terms of half of the voters being the youth. The youth are tired of being a statistic. They want to be involved in the development of this country and they actually have the potential. Given a chance, we will see that the youth have something to offer to this country. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I will be keen to see what we will be doing with the youth who do not have all the qualifications we have been looking for as we form this Government, especially the youth who come from the areas which, for a very long time, have been marginalized. We have young men out there who have not had access to education, who have the energy and the will to contribute to the development of this nation. The question is what will we be doing with this energy? That is why those young men are involved in cattle rustling. I have been involved in various peace initiatives and after sometime, the young people come back and tell us: “You told us to stop fighting, what do we do with this energy that we have?” A long time ago, we used to see those young men being taken to the National Youth Service (NYS) where they were trained to contribute to the development of this nation. From the President’s Address, he said that we will have young people who will be involved in the construction of dams and other infrastructure. In those marginalized areas where people do not have the intellectual capacity because of illiteracy – but they have the energy – if they are trained at the NYS, they will use their energy to help in nation building. I really pray that we will remember the youth from those areas as we talk about the youth of this country. We should be able to rehabilitate them. Many youth in Coast Province are addicted to drugs. We should rehabilitate them instead of arresting them and throwing them into cells. We are not doing any good to them. We should rehabilitate them and then use their energy in contributing to the development of our nation."
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