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    "id": 812802,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "July 10, 2018 SENATE DEBATES 12 Sen. (Prof.) Ekal",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me the chance to contribute to this very important Petition. The small traders are the young people of this country who are trying very hard to make it and get out of their situation. In a country without enough jobs for our youths, we should be supporting and encouraging small traders, organise and find them places where they can sell their wares so that they can make it in a very difficult situation. When I was a young person just out of college, I already had a letter of appointment telling me where to go and work. I found one university student who is doing a degree whom I found in a hotel that I booked today. He was just telling people which rooms were available and so on. That is awful and just how low we have gone as a country. Our youths graduate out of university with degrees and still do not have jobs. Due to that, the youth are becoming creative in such a way that they want to sell what they have. We need to support them instead of beating and chasing them away. They need our support. I support what my brother, Sen. Olekina, said about the prevalence of Chinese all over this country. We are really inviting disaster. I went to buy a car the other day in one of the warehouses and the guy that was showing me cars was a Chinese! I was surprised because I looked at this guy and said, “You do not even know enough English and here you are taking me around, telling me this car is better because it is this---.” Is this something that a Kenyan youth cannot do? It seems that there is something wrong with our systems. In countries such as the US and in fact China - we were there the other day - as a Kenyan, you cannot just go there and start working. You have to have the right papers to work. Otherwise, you just go there and languish in your poverty as a foreigner, yet, these people are just coming to Kenya and getting jobs and taking them away from our youth and we support them. Mr. Speaker, Sir, China is so heavily populated. The last time I looked at its population, it was 1.4 billion people. It is so heavily populated that they are looking for places in the world where they can go. I think Africa is the next Chinese continent. Let us not take what Sen. Olekina said for granted and then we start laughing.We need to start looking into the prevalence of the Chinese as something serious. We may be displaced and find just a few of us in our own country because foreigners are coming in enmass . Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir."
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