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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kinoti",
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        "legal_name": "Boniface Gatobu Kinoti",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I also wish to thank Hon. Mwaura. I rise to second this important Motion. First, I thank God for this wonderful opportunity because when I came to Parliament four years ago, I felt this was a calling especially for the children in my village and all over Kenya where I had spent seven years as a volunteer teacher. It is also very important for my fellow young Kenyans, for whom if we did something different as a country, we can give them many opportunities that we never had a chance to enjoy in our beloved country. I want to thank Hon. Mwaura for moving this very important Motion. I believe with these excellent ideas, we can change our dear country. I also want to thank my colleagues at the Kenya Youth Parliamentarians’ Association (KYPA) for the great ideas they have brought to this House. When we first moved the Motion asking the Government to support orphaned children in our schools, we thought it was just a talk show in this Parliament, but I thank the Government because it followed up on the implementation of the Motion. We now have the Presidential Bursary Scheme in our constituencies where we receive Kshs1.4 million in every constituency to support orphans. I believe the Motion that we are discussing today, a few years to come if not a few months, we will see its fruits and then we will see how we can take our country further. I sincerely thank Hon. Mwaura. I wish to emphasise that we must get away from the thinking of “let entrepreneurs do the work” because in all the countries you go to across the world, especially capitalist countries like ours, the thinking is that if we just support business systems, somehow, unemployment will go away. If we just support the free market, then unemployment would be solved. Unless the Government comes in to solve the challenges that we have of poverty and unemployment, all these problems will remain in our society for many years to come. History has taught us that maybe, the worst economic crisis we have had on our planet is the Great Depression of 1930s. The only way we got out of that was through the American 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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