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    "id": 838605,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kuria East, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Marwa Kitayama",
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        "legal_name": "Marwa Kemero Maisori Kitayama",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity. I support this Motion. I thank Hon. Oluoch for bringing this timely Motion. Indeed, we have always talked about the youth in this country but, unfortunately, it just remains empty talk. Many times, the youth have been used to execute agenda that are short term in nature and not given the proper place that they need to be given. The Government right now is developing technical training institutes in every constituency and, by the year 2022, it is envisaged that each constituency will have a technical training institute. It will be futile to have done this noble thing and then not be able to have the youth to access the potential that comes with a fund that is able to give them the necessary capital and an environment to be able to develop the skills that they have already acquired. Even as I speak about this, I would like to reiterate what Hon. Oluoch has said; that we put this along the NG-CDF model. That is because many good Motions that come and the proposals that we have in this country end up not reaching the people that they need to reach. They end up being administered in areas that are not reaching the grassroots. In this case, rural areas do not get to feel this. So, I support that it would be good to have this because, obviously, NG-CDF has done very well. Many people have felt it. It has reached the far corners of this country. I know that the youth who are far out there in the villages would be able to access that benefit if this fund would be modeled around the NG-CDF model. At the same time, allow me to rope in the Government’s commitment on the Big Four Agenda. If all of us speak to the Big Four Agenda as it stands now, nothing of that explains the role of the youth in the Big Four Agenda. If you talk about manufacturing, by the time the youth get access to that road of manufacturing, the bus would have already left. If you talk about affordable healthcare, again it is the same thing because, if we do not empower the youth, they will be unable to plug into this big agenda that the Government is driving. I believe that whereas the President meant well in the Big Four Agenda, if we do not move along with everybody, then we shall have missed an opportunity to have a big proportion of this country benefiting and also help drive the agenda to success that we all envisage. When I grow up - and I also have my own little thing - and I have an opportunity to do an agenda four, I will do youth as agenda number one, youth as agenda two, youth as agenda three and youth as agenda four. That is because that is the future of this country. Thank you. I support."
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