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    "id": 94758,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mrs. Mugo",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Public Health and Sanitation",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 85,
        "legal_name": "Beth Wambui Mugo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me the opportunity to contribute on this Motion. I want to thank hon. Kioni and his Committee for a job well done and for their immense concern of the youth. We noticed how they traversed the country trying to get views, especially of those who are mainly affected. I believe that in the process, they got the views of the parents and communities. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I just want to add my voice to the many others of the great concern of the condition or situation of our youth in this country today. If you go to any township or village, the roads and streets are full of young people who are idle and do not really know what to do with their lives. Some are very well educated, others have some education while some do not possess education. In the planning or sorting out of the problem of the young people in this country, I think we have to put all those groupings in our minds because they all need a different approach. Of course, there are already strategies laid by the Government. We have the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports and National Youth Service. We had the rehabilitation of street families, especially the youth which seems to have collapsed. We need to revive that strategy because many of these kids who come from the streets are the same ones who are sometimes recruited into these criminal gangs. Even if we try very hard to finish these gangs, unless we have a programme to provide something tangible for them to do, we will not succeed. If we really want to solve insecurity and reduce poverty in this country, we have to start with our young people. That is the largest segment of our population. We should plan well and involve all the stakeholders. This is not something that will be done by the Government alone. It is a responsibility of parents. It is also the responsibility of communities, the church and the mosque. It is the responsibility of everybody. However, the coordinating body must be the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports and the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Development because that is where it all begins. I believe the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Development has a lot to do with this because it deals with communities and families. I feel that we are not doing much to deal with this problem that affects the youth. I recommend that the Government takes very seriously the recommendations that have been given forth in this Report. The Government must put money in youth programmes. The recruitment must be fair whether it is to the armed forces, police or National Youth Service. Every young person should be able to access those opportunities and not only the few who know somebody as it has been said. We know that that happens because the majority does not have anyone to speak for them. That hurts and, as the hon. Member said, the young people are concerned. Parents also get concerned. The grandparents are also concerned. We do not want to see our youth going to waste. If our youth go to waste, we will have no future at all. We must see that some of our youths confess and say that they joined those gangs through force. Some of them do not do it because they want to do it. It is due to peer pressure and others are threatened. As a Government and community, we must protect the youth and make sure that nobody joins those gangs under pressure. We should ensure that they are not recruited forcefully. That is what happens and we condemn the youth wholesale. The terminology â Mungikiâ is not written on oneâs forehead. We know that the police is killing many of those youths saying that they belong to the Mungiki sect. Being a member of the Mungiki sect does not mean that one should be killed. Those are children. Some of them are very young people who should be rehabilitated. Thank God we have a new Constitution that we hope we will follow and implement. It will stop the wanton killing of young people. As an MP in the city, this is something that bothers me a great deal; that every young person is a member of the Mungiki . In Central Province, the youth who do not have anything else to do are presumed to belong to the Mungiki sect. We must do away with those terminologies which tend to harm young people than rehabilitate them. I support."
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