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    "content": "they might be killed. The reason for these killings is that, really, the young people have not found an outlet from the various training or through the education or they have not been able to go through educational institutions successfully and some of them have left because of poverty. Others have not been able to secure jobs. So, all of them are really looking at land as a way of sustaining themselves and the old people are not dying quickly enough, in their opinion and, therefore, one way of ensuring that they actually clear that land is by killing them, like they have done. You can imagine the level of conflict; it actually now becomes a question of scarce resources. Why then can we just not think about our industries, be they textile, cotton or leather industries, to ensure that these are actually appropriately built? It should not be very difficult, like in the model of China, where you actually just use low cost and low skilled labour for you to attain and make profits from whatever is going on or is being sold in that particular place. We have, therefore, found ourselves in a situation where we have created expectations from the youth that we cannot meet. We take them through an educational system and at the end of that, we cannot give them employment if they go to university. We have created middle level colleges where we say we are training them for skills, but once they are ready for these skills; there is no outlet for these specific skills. We are training them through the 8- 4-4 system so that they can actually have an alternative education where they can have a possibility of using other skills apart from academic skills, but there is completely no outlet for that. We are sitting on a time bomb; we are creating many expectations and we are not building up our industries sufficiently enough so that they can fit in. We have let ourselves to the opportunity and exposure of relying on the west and whatever comes from the west. In those countries, they are able to give high subsidies such that it is possible to end up with products that are substantially low cost even after they have been exported to this country. In the long run, they are happy to do that, but we never ask questions about the type of products that we end up with; what is the implication of those products? At the end of the day, even the mitumbas that we run for – cheap is expensive – sometimes these clothes will wear and tear within a very short time. At times, as Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo said, they may be have diseases and we do not know. What dignity do we have, as Kenyans, when we are wearing mitumbas of"
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