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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Rotino",
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        "legal_name": "Philip Lotiolo Ruto Rotino",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to join my colleagues in supporting this very important Motion. I will go ahead and say that this is a very important Motion and it should be developed as a Bill because it is long overdue. We are watching the growth of our youth and unemployment. We are watching a time bomb being developed slowly by slowly. We are not addressing it as a Government. Governments have come and gone and yet, what we hear is just rhetoric about how we will occupy our youth. We should produce a Bill that will commit the government of the day to enhance the talents that our youth have. We know that we have a lot of talented youths out there. They have developed many things. Ideas have come and gone. Ideas have come and have been copied by other people. Just about two or three months ago, a young man from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) came up with a light that scares away lions. When he developed it in a forum, people neglected it. But there was a tourist in the forum who took the telephone number of that young man, called him and took him to the United States of America (USA). Within two months, he had a forum and he has developed that wonderful light and imported it to Kenya. It is now being used by the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS). They are now crying and wishing that they had developed that talent because they are now paying a lot of money to use that light to scare away wild animals when tourists come. Our youths have many ideas, but we have not created the forum and atmosphere for them to develop. When some of us were growing up and were in school, we had the 4K Clubs, geography club and various scientific clubs. They were part of the curriculum that we had in our institutions. What was the reason for them? It was supposed to enhance the talent of the young men and women. But we did away with that curriculum and system of enhancing the youth. We are still crying and creating other funds that are being wasted instead of creating a system that will see the youth themselves running that system. What are we doing when we kill our technical institutes and turn them into universities? We are destroying the system. I urge my friend, Hon. Mwaura, to develop a Bill that commits the Government so that it sets aside certain amounts from the Consolidated Fund for the youth, just as we set aside 2.5 per cent for the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF). We should set aside 1 per cent from the funds and revenues the Government collects for this particular system so that every 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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