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    "id": 874294,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "rules. The adverse mention of the Chief Justice is not permitted. If we want to discuss him, let us bring a substantive Motion. In addition, what is good for the goose must be good for the gander. You cannot say that the Chief Justice should not attend political meetings, yet speakers are attending them from both divides. Let it be the same. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, on that Statement on education, I want to thank Sen. Wetangula. A country that is at war with its young people is a country that has no future and is cannibalizing itself. Today, our young people have no hope; they are disillusioned and disengaged. In the months between October and December in Nairobi County, I have lost more than 30 young people to extra-judicial killings. In the last two weeks we saw a 21- year old young boy shot at the Dusit attack abandoned. We have also seen a 26-year old young boy arrested and charged in court because he had to sneak out his baby in a bag because he could not pay the hospital bill. What are we talking about as a country? What future are we trying to build? Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we have toiled in this Parliament for the last few years. We have brought Bills like the National Employment Authority which I sponsored in the last Parliament, where all these young people who are supposedly defaulters of Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) would have now been engaged in compulsory internships which would have paid those loans. They are not being implemented. I have brought the Bill that has introduced 30 percent procurement preferences for young people but Governors, Cabinet Secretaries and Permanent Secretaries (PS) are giving contracts to their children and cronies. It is not being implemented. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I want to say it today with the authority of the Senate as the Vice Chair of the Committee on National Security, Defence, and Foreign Relations, that any police officer listening to me today, do not try to arrest any young person who has defaulted on HELB. I think the character of Cabinet Secretary (CS) Amina is different. I just pray that she was misquoted because I cannot imagine her having said that. We cannot be talking about recovering over Kshs7 billion from young people who have no jobs. In fact, this House should amend the law. The HELB loans should not have an interest; it is not about interest. Secondly, you should not be asked to pay any penalty before you get employment. The Government should figure out how they will find out whether those young people have gotten employment. Why is it that today it is a crime to be a young person? In parts of my county, the highest cause of death is youth. Just because you are a young person you are at risk. You have to be in the house by a certain time, you go out to look for a job, you get onto a bodaboda, you come to town and you are arrested and the"
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