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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, when I was in China, I went to the rural areas and found out that every person gets food. I know we have very competent people in the Ministry of Agriculture, who can advice our people and the Government on how to go about this. If we do not have them, let us go to countries like the People’s Republic of China and see how they do it. What is needed is to feed our people. What is needed in this country today is to see our that people eat good food, wear good clothes and have better life by using clean water and all that. We can do it. What surprises me is that many years ago, in the 1970s, a country like Kenya used to give grants to Malaysia. This was because Malaysia was behind us in terms of development. Today, Malaysia is one million kilometers ahead of us. What went wrong? I think we need to correct some anomalies. We can do a lot. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, Kazi kwa Vijana started in full force. Where is it today? We are Members of Parliament, but nobody now has that Kazi kwaVijana Programme . Let us do whatever we promised the people of Kenya. Let us revive the Kazi kwa Vijana, if it is dead. You know that is not the way to find solutions to Kazi kwa Vijana problems. Let us go to rural areas and start proper industries there for those young men and women to be employed rather than giving them pangas and jembe. We give them money for temporary comfort and then after two months, there is no money. Today, the big cities in Kenya like Nairobi, Mombasa, Kisumu and Nakuru have been invaded by young people from rural areas. This is not because they want to come to Nairobi, but because they cannot earn livelihood in their areas. We must change this attitude. After elections we must involve ourselves in development. However, in this country from the day we finish general elections, we go on politicking until the next elections. We must serve our people. If, as leaders of this country we cannot serve our people, let us make a resolution in this House that all Members of Parliament, councilors and other leaders will resign. We should all resign and not stand for election anymore because we have failed to run this country. Let new people come in and run this country rather than cheat people. I think it is time now leaders got serious with their jobs. I believe my people like me because I have been elected all this time. I have been in leadership for 30 years. I have been a councilor for 15 years and a Member of Parliament for 15 years, because I render services in my constituency to the satisfaction of my constituents and other Kenyans. Everybody should be prepared to do this rather than doing a lot of politics. Politics has its time and room. I beg to support."
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