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    "id": 94737,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kinyanjui",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Roads",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Lee Maiyani Kinyanjui",
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    "content": " Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to take this opportunity to contribute to this very important national matter. First, I would like to congratulate the team that went out of their way to ensure that this matter was properly researched, and that their Report was brought to this House so that we can adopt some of the good proposals that they have come up with. It is worth noting that the issue of organized crime has not been with us for a long time. If you look at the chronology of events from the early 1980s to where we are today it becomes very clear that this is a problem that would have been foreseen earlier, and that we ought to have taken the necessary measures to forestall the trouble that we have today. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, if you look at the population explosion of the 1980s when we were the country with the highest population growth rate, it was evident that the new born babies of the 1980s would one day be in their 20s and 30s. That time has come and this group finds itself in a time when there are many social challenges, where students from the university no longer get jobs; those who come from middle level colleges have no place to go to work as was the case before. Therefore, they find themselves back in the estates and farms with no jobs while some of them have very good skills. This has led to some sense of hopelessness that has led to a grey area that has been exploited by some of these gangs. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, in all the major towns in this country we have a corner where young men and women meet every day to prospect for jobs. Here in Nairobi, we have the Kenya Cinema where you have graduates and all manner of young people meeting every day; they call that place “a jobless corner”. If you go to Kisumu Nakuru and Mombasa, it is the same story. When you have a critical mass of young qualified people who have nothing to do and who feel hopeless, then this is a very dangerous group. It is also worth noting that in the 1960s, 1970s and also early 1980s all university students who took the basic courses in education or medicine at, example, Nairobi University were posted to work for the Government. In fact, there was no time to “tarmac”, because the Government would enrol as many students as it had jobs for them. Today, you have a whole generation of students who have graduated in the last almost ten years and have not had the opportunity to work despite having the best qualifications in the courses that they have studied. This has led to a state of hopelessness among the youth. Previously, you would tell your son or daughter to study so that they will be important people in life and be able to take care of themselves and their families. This is no longer the case. The advent of corruption has meant that we have people who come from nowhere and within no time, they are able to make it in life. But those who have been patient and who have done the right things continue to languish in poverty. Therefore, we need to seriously address the issue of role models. Our youth feel hopeless. They have no one to look up to for advice. The church has had no organized fora upon which they would be able to address the plight of youth in this country."
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