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    "id": 978262,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ndhiwa, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Martin Owino",
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        "legal_name": "Martin Peters Owino",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, even if all the Cabinet Secretaries are young people, it will not address the problem youths are facing. What will, is the sensitivity of what young people are going through and the framework of addressing them from the grassroots to the national level. We have a good example of a young Cabinet Secretary who is now facing legal issues. The issue of integrity, vision and commitment comes from the grassroots level. Even us who are past the youth age can still consider ourselves current youth. I am a father of a youth and I am sensitive to what goes on in a youth’s life. It is an allergy that cuts across gender, that is, women for women and youth for youth. Really, as a nation we should have a framework of addressing population segments of our people rather than looking and yearning to put them right there in order to solve the problem. It would not work. That is missing in our national thread of responsibility as Kenyans. In conclusion, I urge KYPA that even though there is no youth representation in BBI secretariat, that does not really matter. What matters is how organised you are in presenting your views on what you want and defending them up to the time of voting yes or no. If we do not do that, we will keep on crying for them and before we know it, we would have become crybabies. In the analogy of solving problems, that does not help anybody. If KYPA is hearing me, organise yourselves, present your issues, defend them, get them passed and we will back it up. I support and encourage Hon. Keter and the entire House to fast-track this so that we can get it in place to address the problem of young people, including those who are in Ndhiwa which has over 70 per cent joblessness. If we do that, we will close the revolving doors of poverty, unemployment and also bad behavior which is creeping into young people’s domain."
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