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    "id": 953220,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mwea, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Josphat Kabinga",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13441,
        "legal_name": "Josphat Kabinga Wachira",
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    "content": "Having children complete secondary education at the age of 18 and having no other opportunities for them is tantamount to giving opportunities to bad guys like terrorists, who find it easy to recruit such idle groups of youth. That is a group that has gone through Form Four, struggled to get their grades, have no other opportunity and here comes somebody who is offering some money to do certain things. We find our children engaging in some of those security threatening activities not because they want, but because in a way we have not looked after them or thought through what they would do after they finish their Form Four education. This is why I look at this Motion as coming at the right time when we are struggling with security in this country and the crime rate is going up. It is not going up because people want to be engaged in crime, it is because people want a decent livelihood and they cannot get it from whatever skills they may have acquired in Form Four. By having that 100 per cent transition, we are simply saying that nearly 90 per cent of our children will acquire something that can give them some livelihood. By doing so, we are simply saying that we will no longer have people who are idle out there; people who are ready to engage in some of the activities that are threatening security in this country. For this reason, I stand to second this Motion. I urge the Committee on Implementation, to follow up on it. I know they have many Motions that they are “sleeping on”. I urge that this one be moved very quickly because it has a real return on our investment to this country where our children will become much more useful than they are. I would love to see one morning when The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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