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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, what has come out clearly is that every senator who has spoken has supported this Bill. What this means is that this is a Bill which is important; which is timely and which helps the country to correct some of the challenges that we have created as a country because of our legislative framework. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there is no need to over emphasize that for a long time, young people have only been living under the hope that tomorrow will be a better day. For us, who are leaders, we have been telling young people that tomorrow will be a better day and what this Bill is doing is, for the first time, to tell young people of Kenya, both men and women, that, actually, they have as much a right as the older people in our society to make it in business, to get empowered, to have a livelihood so that they can also start playing an important role in the development of our nation. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the same case applies to women. More than half of the population of this country is women but, for a long time, the control of resources and other economic levers has unfortunately been in the control of men. This does not help our country to be a just, fair and equitable society that our Constitution now demands under Article 10, which sets out our national values. One of the values there, amongst other things, is the value of equity, including equity in the way we share the proceeds and wealth of our nation. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, persons with disabilities have, for a long time, been reduced to objects of pity. The best that they can get from society has been pity and tokenism."
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