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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mwaura",
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        "legal_name": "Isaac Maigua Mwaura",
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    "content": "It has been very well stated by all those great Members of this august House of what needs to be done. By the way, let me take this opportunity to underscore the selflessness of Members of Parliament in this great country. Those are individuals recognised by nobody. They are individuals who go out of their way to use their resources. They become sacrificial lambs. They even sacrifice their own families and all they get are insults and name-calling. Those are gallant people and from the voices that we have heard on this Floor is the desire to ensure that all constituents in all the 290 constituencies, the special interest groups and the 47 counties that, indeed, our young people need to be given an opportunity. When I look at Bunifu anti-virus from Hon. Mwaita’s constituency that has a user base of 20,000 and has been taken over by county government, I am encouraged that our young people, given an opportunity, can do it. We owe it unto ourselves to create an imaginable future for all of us. We owe it unto ourselves to attain the sustainable development goals of the United Nations (UN) by ensuring that we combat poverty. Indeed, one of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) calls that we need not leave anyone behind and we should start with the furthest. Our youth are the ones that we leave behind. Youth is not a stage that is ossified in history; it is a transitionary mechanism. It therefore means that even in terms of distribution of resources, we need to ensure that we empower them because when we do so, we are empowering our future. Now, we have a very big population of young people. It means that in 50 years to come, our country will have a very high dependency of old people who will require to be taken care of. Our social welfare system will not be able to sustain if we do not empower them so that they can be employed, so that they can save and so that our country can move forward. We will fall through the trap that we are seeing in Europe, where productivity has gone down. We cannot invent a new landscape for Kenya. We cannot go to fight Somalia so that we can have more land mass. But we can extend our acreage by exploiting the minds of the young people through empowering them, by mentoring them, by giving them opportunities, by not asking them who their fathers are, by not asking them how mad they are, but energising them so that tomorrow we can also be secure. I am encouraged that there are many young people who are not giving up, who are following those proceedings and are sure that they will also be there to ensure that the ideas do not die. We must provide that leadership. We must urge the Government - because Parliament is itself an arm of Government - not just to whine each and every other time because we have the power and the capacity to change our society. In fact, leadership most invariably has capacity to transform society and good leadership is not leading from behind."
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