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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Chanzu",
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        "legal_name": "Yusuf Kifuma Chanzu",
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    "content": "Idle youth are waiting for somebody to come and give them something. Like in our place, there are very good youths but, if you give them something, they disappear behind the shops. When they come back, they have already changed. There are a quite a number of them. So, what we are saying is that we must address this issue seriously. Let us have proper statistics so that even when we are campaigning across the whole country, we know what we are addressing in terms of numbers. We know what resources to put because another problem is that, as we know in economics, resources are scarce. When you start with a figure which is low, you do not end up achieving. In fact, the problem Mr. Mututho is having is that, when he was talking about what he was going to do, he did not know he required other issues to go with it, like financial resources. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I am only hoping that for the Mututho issue, it is not the Kenyan habit where people go jumping up and down for jobs but once they are given the jobs, they settle down. There are many commissions that we set up in this Parliament, but they are not performing. There is the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC). I was reading in the newspapers that they have only prosecuted three cases - I do not know for how many years - and they have been taking millions of shillings. There is the Auditor-General’s Office which has also not done much and this is why you are seeing a lot of money in counties being siphoned into people’s pockets. The county governments have now engaged in construction everywhere, like in our place in Vihiga they just come with a bulldozer and “bulldoze” all over the place. They The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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