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    "id": 978173,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/978173/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Saboti, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Caleb Luyai",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Caleb Amisi Luyai",
        "slug": "caleb-amisi-luyai"
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    "content": "So, you cannot leave a whole generational gap. Moreover, youth leadership is not new. Historically, people who have fought for revolutions were young people like Thomas Sankara, Muamar Gadhafi and Martin Luther King Jnr. All these people achieved while very young. Therefore, most of the achievements that have changed the course of government and that of humanity were done by young people. The recent Prime Minister of Australia is 32 years old and the President of New Zealand is 38 years old. Moreover, there are many young presidents in the world who are doing marvelous work. Therefore, if we do not address the issues of young people in this country, we will be going wrong. They say: “The youths of a nation are the trustees of posterity”. Therefore, a nation that continuously ignores the voice of the youth and continuously sidelines the young people in its national goals is a nation on the trajectory of failure. We cannot set this country on failure by ignoring the 75 percent population that makes this country. So, even in the BBI Report, we need to hear the voices and issues of young people being articulated. Can we even start setting up youth talent academies in every constituency, so that in every constituency across the country, young people have an avenue to showcase their talents? There are people dying with their talents back in mashinani because they have no platforms to showcase them. If we have talent development academies in every constituency, we will give a chance to young people from Samburu who cannot come to the amphitheater in Nairobi. They can have their amphitheaters in Samburu and can expose their talents to the world. They can come back to Nairobi and entertain us. Follow the roots of some people that have done well on the international arena. There are footballers. If the Wanyamas of this time were nurtured at an early stage, they would be successful. Most of the football players of the French national team which won the World Cup are basically from Africa. So, Africa is an epicenter of talent. We need to use our talents other than just crying that we need the Government to offer employment. Why can we not turn our focus to developing the talents of young people other than focusing on the Government to provide a solution that they will not do? Therefore, we need to focus on talent development of young people because that is where our potential is. We do not have natural resources like oil. So what do we have? We have the talents as a nation. We need to use them to compete globally with the rest of the world. So, if we continuously muzzle the voices of the young people, we will not hear them and see their talents. 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."
}