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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Lati",
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        "legal_name": "Jonathan Lelelit Lati",
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    "content": "We are sort of a sleeping giant because if you consider a population of about 65 per cent being youth, then we are a country that can explode into high development if these youth are utilised. Our country will be one of the best in this world in the coming years if we utilise that talent that is coming up. Let me also commend the Jubilee Government for taking a good direction. In my constituency today, we have the National Youth Service (NYS) working with the youth in programmes you could only dream of in a county like Samburu. We have youth earning money and the best way to develop the economy is to have people in various sectors earn a living so that they can fit into the expenditure framework of the economy and push our Gross Domestic Product (GDP) up. That is exactly what the NYS is doing today. They are paying youth and making them spend and expand our economy. That is just one. They are also developing skills of these youths so that they can be productive people for our country. They are not only being patriotic to the nation but they also have productive skills. Learning business skills in far flung places like Samburu is a new thing. I commend this Government for being the first to have considered people of those areas. As Hon. Sakaja has said, there is something that is really needed in this country and I am glad that people like Hon. Sakaja are pushing for them. These are things like job centres. As he said, it is just fair that everybody gets a fair chance to apply for a job that exists in Kenya today. However, people in far flung places like Samburu rarely see these job advertisements and so they do not even apply. This also gets into the insecurity part of our country. All those bandits that we see in the papers and on television are human beings, and apart from being human beings, they are actually youth. The reason why they go stealing cows and risk their lives and the lives of others is because they have no opportunity in life. If we can develop a policy framework like this one that will take care of those things or that will take care of those youths, we can also help secure our country in very many ways. I support this Paper because it is the first step to make sure that we are moving in the right direction to develop labour, a key factor of production for our country. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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