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    "id": 838634,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Loima, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jeremiah Lomorukai",
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        "legal_name": "Jeremiah Ekamais Lomorukai",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to thank Hon. Anthony Oluoch for bringing this very serious and timely Motion. I think our country is grappling with a myriad of issues, one of which is trying to stabilise the economy. Secondly, the issue of youth unemployment in this country is the worst. So, I want to congratulate the Member for taking his time to think about youth matters. I think 78 per cent of our population is made up of the young people. That is according to the last population census. So, the youth forms the largest population of this country and must be given attention. Without giving attention to such kind of population, this country will get into very serious crimes and even have issues of Al Shabaab . When we get there, the country will seriously lose a lot. In May 2009, the Ministry of State for Youth Affairs formulated and published the Youth Employment Marshall. It announced the rate of unemployment as a time bomb in this country; that this nation is sitting on a time bomb which will explode and the country will seriously get affected. In 2002, the Youth Agenda Kenya recommended that we declare the youth unemployment rate as a national disaster. I want to support the Member for proposing in his Motion that we should declare youth unemployment in this country as a national disaster. In 2012, the rate of unemployment shot to 40 per cent. It means the rate at which unemployment of youth is growing is alarming. It would be prudent as a country to create a law that will take care of matters of the youth. We must create a working fund and declare those other dormant funds defunct because they have never served the interests of the youth in this country. By creating a fund, we will be in a position to help our youth get trained and build their capacity. Indeed, that will enable our country make a step."
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