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    "id": 705449,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mbui",
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        "legal_name": "Robert Mbui",
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    "content": "How do we achieve this? This is a very good idea but when we give these funds to the youth, what will they need in order to excel? The first thing we need to look at is our education system. We must nurture innovation. We need to develop an education system that allows people to think. Our education system stifles innovation by our youth. Even the questions in our examination demand fixed answers. I looked at our primary school exams and realized that one is given four choices. That is A, B, C and D. The answer can only be one of those. I do not think life is supposed to be that way. There ought to be option. We should have option A, B, C or D. They are not always right or wrong. You could have two or three right answers. We need to change our education system to move from that level of considering what is written in the textbooks as being always right. I remember when I was doing Geography in school the text book we were using stated that where I come from, the lower eastern part of Kenya, is semi-arid. This is the case and yet my constituency is completely green. I would take photos at home, take them to school and people would tell me: “No, this is not Ukambani. It must be somewhere in central Kenya.” This is because the textbook said that. That is what we need to move away from. We need to create a situation where our education system is also evolving so that we can create innovative minds that understand change continuously. We should not make things rigid for the people that we are trying to nurture so that they develop this nation in future. Finally, we do not want to politicise youth issues. In the last election one of the political parties – I do not want to mention names - said that it had a youth agenda. It is four years since the last election. We have looked for that youth agenda all over and we cannot find it. I represent the youth of Kathiani and I have not seen any youth agenda. That was part of the many promises that we were given during the campaigns. So, it is important that we do not politicize these issues. As we come up with an idea of a fund such as this, let the Government take it seriously and ensure that it is implemented. In Machakos County where I come from, the government constantly has ideas about the youth. They say they are giving them 2,000 jobs but the youth are still eating muguka out there. 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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