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    "id": 705425,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Tong’i",
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        "legal_name": "Richard Nyagaka Tongi",
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    "content": "for everybody. He looked around and got a boy who said he had five loaves of bread and two fish. He believed it was enough for everybody. What I gather from this story is that the Sanhedrin in that meeting did not believe that it was enough, but the boy believed it was enough to feed everybody. Indeed, the boy provided leadership and he fed the people. It is the same thing today. If we nurture our youth and support them we will be surprised by the potential that they have. It is sad that we only remember them during campaigns. We remember them now because the campaigns are fast approaching. We are now going to group them for purposes of using them to implement our strategies as we seek re-election. It is a very sad story. These are people who have a lot of potential and will take this nation to the next level. Therefore, this Motion could never have come at a better time. It is because of what it stands for. When we were in school, and I am sure it pretty happens even now, we used to have Science Congress and innovation days. Those innovation days were just innovation days. They were there for showbiz. You were required to demonstrate what you know and if you were lucky to catch the attention of the media, it would propagate your story. We need to develop that to the next level. We have a duty to ensure that the innovative ideas that the youth have take this country to the next level. The world over, the best companies do not recruit the most experienced managers because an experienced manager has exhausted his or her ideas. If you look at the good companies which believe in the future, you will find that they go head-hunting for the youth in colleges and give them job opportunities. But what happens in countries like ours? You get a person who had an idea which worked 20 years or 30 years ago, but because we still believe that he has an idea, we select that person and give him a job. What we do not know is that the person will only recycle the same old idea that he had. Like the Bible says, we all can do what we can within the knowledge that we have. If only we could get the new guys from the university, give them a challenge, let them make mistakes and give them assignments, trust me, they will come up with a different way of doing things. They will help us resolve the challenges that we have as a country and in the process we will end up with innovative ideas of driving this economy to the next level. My proposal is that we need to include in this law the issue of recruitment. This idea of saying that we are looking for people who have experience---Where is the industry for experience? Where do people get experience before they are hired? If you cannot trust me with a new idea, you cannot trust me with an office. If you cannot give me a chance to do internship so that I can learn how best it can be done, then we are going to hurt as a country. We are also going to lose out on opportunities. If you go to any shopping centre today, you will be saddened to find strong, energetic and healthy men waiting for handouts. They wait for politicians to pass by and give them something small so that they can compose a song or two for them. This is not the way to engage our youth. This Motion helps us to do exactly what we should have done as a country many years ago. If you look at the elections which happened in America, you will find that the youth said enough is enough. They do not want the political establishment because the best the political establishments have done is to recycle ideas and the same old people. I believe that they are the people who have ideas. I believe there are many people out there who have not been given an opportunity to articulate their issues or agenda in the public domain. Given a chance, they will make a difference and make great contribution to this great country. All of us would be proud to be in Kenya. 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."
}