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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we, as a nation, have not put the youth agenda amongst our priorities. It is only recently that as a nation we passed a youth policy. It is only recently that we set up a Ministry for the youth. What have we done? We have practised tokenism, where we have given Kshs1 billion in the so-called Youth Enterprise Development Fund to be shared among the youth of this nation, but the money has not reached the youth of this nation. They are impoverished, jobless and hopeless. That is why they have turned to crime. That is why the youth of this nation are crying out. If across Atlantic Ocean comes a brotherly hand from a son of a son of this soil to help the youth of Kenya, we are saying he should go ahead. He should bring this aid. They should help our youth. We should empower them because what we want now is a paradigm shift in our policy from power politics to politics of empowerment. We want to empower our youth. If we are saying America should not bring US$3.5 billion to help the youth of this nation, then let us set aside US $3.5 billion to help the youth of this nation. That we have never done. The most we have given is about Kshs1 billion or so. So, if we are going as representatives of the young people of this nation, who know their suffering in our constituency through the CDF, we are unable to help them. Through lack of proper policies, this nation has not been able to help the young people. What are we saying, if we pass this Motion? That let the youth of this nation remain with their suffering? Let them continue suffering peacefully and let us kick out this fellow who has tried to associate and help the young people of this nation?"
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