{"id":573040,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/573040/?format=json","text_counter":216,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. (Ms.) Ghati","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":856,"legal_name":"Dennitah Ghati","slug":"dennitah-ghati"},"content":"our children. Any community that does not educate their girls is a failed community. That is what we have been championing for. I have been championing for education for the girl child, and against FGM in my community. It is good that those sentiments came from the world’s most powerful President, and not just from a Member of Parliament. I want to briefly talk about the young people. The President of the USA exuded a lot of confidence in young people who have lost hope. I would say that the visit by the President of the USA was actually a youth visit because the young people of this country had been sidelined for too long. Our own Government needs to look into ways and means of ensuring that our young people are able to get employment. Lastly, I would like to speak on corruption. There is no way an entire country can be led by just two communities. When President Obama talked about corruption, he categorically said that you cannot lead a team of people when only a part of that team is playing. What he meant is not that only women are not playing. He also meant that you cannot lead a team of the 42 communities in this country when only two communities are leading. We need to look at that issue seriously, and not peg it on women only. We need to be very serious about the issue of corruption. We also need to look at the issue of our young people. We have laws that protect children in this country. We have the Children’s Act and the Constitution and yet our children do not go to school. Our young people are always subjected to FGM. Our chiefs are subjecting our children to cultural practices that belong to the past century – practices that have no place in the 21stCentury. President Obama hit the nail on the head. We gave Mr. Obama to the world. Now that they have respected him and they are almost done with him, we need our Obama back. We can still make use of our Obama in this country to help us put systems in place. With those few remarks, I beg to support and congratulate the President of the USA, on behalf of the people of Migori County that I represent in this House."}