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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Njuki",
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        "legal_name": "Onesmus Muthomi Njuki",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Let me, first of all, start by congratulating Hon. Sakaja not just because of this Bill. For the days we have been here, this young legislator has brought many Bills on the youth. In fact, if we were in the old dispensation, he could be the Minister for Youth Affairs. But now, he might have to rely on what he has been doing for the youth to vie for a seat. I am sure he will benefit from the votes of those youth because they are for him. We have talked a lot about the youth and I want to acknowledge the fact that the youth normally grow into men and women. The greatest problem is not unemployment when they are young but what happens when they go through that stage unemployed and become old men and women who are still unemployed. It is a very desperate situation. You may not be aware that what is contributing to what you hear in Nyeri could be part of that problem. It is because you have no job both as a youth and as an old man. The clock does not stop and wait for you while you go through the life cycle. A youth who does not have a job still needs to marry and provide for the family. Therefore, all the needs that come with people who have jobs also apply for jobless people. That is what causes the desperate situation of struggling to take care of your family. Such youth go out and start stealing or become radicalised. I would like to share an experience that I have with friends and neighbours who live around Kibera neighbourhoods. When the Kibera Youth Programme was started--- Many people may not be aware and they think that the NYS went there and made toilets for Kibera people to stop using “the flying toilets”. Actually, the toilets were meant to create jobs for the youth. The youth normally clean the toilets and people pay to use them. There are also posho mills. They also constructed roads in places where it was not possible to do business and now we have people hawking along those roads. What happened is that the many idle youth who used to hover around and became a nuisance in the neighbourhoods and other estates became busy and the crime rate has reduced. It 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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