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    "id": 838563,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Prof.) Jacqueline Oduol",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Jacquiline Adhiambo Oduol",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to speak to this important Motion. I rise to support the Motion on the grounds of the significance we give to our development and the manner in which we, as leaders in the National Assembly, in Government and other places, are focused solely and squarely on ensuring that Kenya not only grows to improve, but to realize its ideals. It has been indicated that 78 per cent of the population is younger than 35 years and that 70 per cent of those that we see are unemployed. As I support this and thank Hon. Anthony Oluoch for bringing this into focus, I would like us to focus on the significance of declaring a matter a national disaster. A number of times, we find that we confuse calamities or catastrophes or we use language that would talk about anything tragic. We fail to acknowledge that when we talk about a national disaster, we truly want to bring the attention of the entire country to not only the tragedy, difficulties or challenges, but to point out that if not addressed, it is a matter that will affect everyone. We are talking about the youth but, in effect, we are really talking about our country Kenya, the elderly, women and children. Looking at the levels of unemployment and the manner in which our youth whom a very significant percentage is affected, we see that we have untold problems, cases of insecurity and our youth being affected and sometimes losing hope and getting into drug abuse. There are situations where there is loss of morals and a case of where youths turn on their own family members including even their own parents and siblings out of desperation. I would like us to bear in mind that as the 12th Parliament, we will be remembered for two things. We will be remembered for the problems that we solved through our legislative, oversight as well as representation responsibilities and we will also be remembered by the problems that we cause. Looking at the impact that unemployment has on the youth and the related connection between that and the manner in which a number of issues including - as I indicated earlier - insecurity and our youth getting involved in some very suspicious and negative activities, it is only right that we support the declaration of youth unemployment as a national disaster and in particular, ensure that there is a fund to go with it. Success is predictable and so is failure. If we want to succeed in our agenda and ensure that our country is sustained, we truly must look into the issues of the youth."
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