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    "id": 705408,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Onyura",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Michael Aringo Onyura",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for this opportunity. Right away, I support this Motion very strongly. I will always support anything that improves the lot of our youth because I know that the best way for us to build the future of our country is through the youth who we all expect to hand over leadership and other responsibilities to. This Motion, should it be implemented, will obviously result in the improvement of a lot of our youth in terms of empowerment and advancing the quality of their lives. Some of the major threats to stability in our country include tribalism and corruption. But an even bigger threat is the issue of lack of employment, particularly among our youth, who are full of energy and are well-educated. We have many graduates roaming around without employment. The issue of unemployment is a major bomb just waiting to explode. One other way of addressing this is by encouraging and identifying those who have talent, are creative and imaginative and are looking for ways of developing. Not only will they create jobs for themselves but will also, through those innovations, carry many others along with them. My suggestion is that the relevant Ministry, in a matter like this, should immediately create a kind of Huduma desk that can start looking at ways of implementing this because we have a lot of talent out there. There is so much that we come across even from the congresses that have been mentioned. Even when you walk around the village, you get people with tremendous creativity and imagination. The other day, when I was just walking around, I could see people, even at a fairly young age, being able to model and replicate toys and all manner of vehicles from whatever materials they come across. It could just be scraps of metal or even plastics. There is a lot of talent out there which is just waiting to be tapped, guided and directed. We should create systems where this can be structured properly and then provide ways of mentoring as has been mentioned here. What many of these entrepreneurs and innovative minds lack is just encouragement and resources. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we should have a structured way of helping our youth to develop talents. I feel that we should devolve innovation. We should encourage all counties to have the innovation fund and centres for incubation. Since counties are close to the people, we should encourage them to adopt these initiatives as part of their service to their people in terms of development and improving quality of lives of their people. These projects will tap into a lot of energy that exists among our youth that is at times misused. Most of them are lured into crimes and drugs. At times, when there is a little instigation to demonstrations, most of the youth join without even knowing what is happening. Because of the too much energy and idleness, it is very easy to recruit our youth into these negative activities. If this Motion is well-thought out and programmed, it will go a long way in assisting our youth. 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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