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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, we need to think and guarantee employment to our young people in this country. This is one of the greatest challenges of the Jubilee Government. We are talking about a very young population where more than 70 per cent are below 35 years. These are people who are graduating from college and who do not know where to go. If we cannot sort out our industrialisation issues and help medium sized companies to be set up, not just at the national level, but also at the county level, then this will remain a problem. Our youth will remain a problem. As you can see, the vision for nuclear energy is not an immediate plan. So, even as we sort out the 5,000 megawatts, we hope that we will achieve what seems to be so much out of reach. Fifty years down the line, in 2063, history will judge us very harshly if we will not have laid a very good foundation for the citizens of this country. We must explore other options. The technical support that has been alluded to by the Senator for Homa Bay should not just be on paper as it has been said earlier. It should not only remain a good thing. It must be committed by setting up the infrastructure. We have people helping and that is why we have 10 people being trained in South Korea under a scholarship programme. We need to have the human resource. This is not something that you can do in a day or in two years. That is why we have given ourselves 10 years to achieve it. That is why the human resource development had to be set up right away. This is training where we must wait for our people to have interest. We do not have a very good history. As Sen. Kajwang said, people who trained in this area have not ended up in good places. You then wonder why we should continue to train in that discipline. We must start again, to create awareness and to support the technical know-how in this field. Our nation must also invest in the same. As we do our budget in the coming years, we must allocate the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum a good amount of money to help set up the infrastructure so that we do not get to 2022 and go back to the drawing board. This has to be a conscious effort by everyone so that we lay the best foundation. I want to support this report. This is not the end of this debate, but it must be taken up. As it was said by some Senators, with regard to people from the national Treasury, that very good activities are generated and supported by everyone. However, the issues get to the national Treasury; some people there create the notion that such things are not doable. We must think beyond ourselves. We must think about what our children say when we exit the Senate. We are looking at a growing population. We need to know how we will sustain it, without going down on our knees as a country. I support and hope that we will use every chance that we get through thick and thin. Let everyone own it so that we make a difference. As I come to an end, we must also remember the policy of public participation in the governance of this country that is in the Constitution. We must also carry our people along. We should not leave them behind. The people who are afraid of change must get out of that fear. We should educate people. A lot of civil education on nuclear energy generation must be done. We must support public participation and the Ministry must be supported to give information to the public. That way, they will also own the programme and we will make progress."
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