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    "id": 978278,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kibwezi West, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Patrick Musimba",
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        "legal_name": "Patrick Mweu Musimba",
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    "content": "We need a council that does not get intimidated. Looking at the current composition, and Hon. Keter being the Mover, we need to get bolder. You cannot have eight representatives of the youths selected by a process determined by the Cabinet Secretary and six other representatives who outweigh them in terms of resources and position in this country because they will intimidate them at the Board. This is because there is a skew and we need numbers that make sense in the NYC. We need other bodies like the Attorney General propose people who have power but are also in the youth category. So that, it is momentous in the things they propose and how they want to thrive. Just to drive the point forward, we must have youths elected competitively. The whole essence of politics and power is to fight for allocation of resources. The youths are at best to know what their priorities are. We need to adventure. The USA created great funds and that is why today it is a manufacturing and industrial superpower. Year after year they pumped in excess of US$ 300 billion into the economy for start-ups and not wasting. Certainly, that money is rotating within the economy. Even this era of austerity which we are talking about, there are things you do not mess around with. You cannot say you will do austerity and cut budgets across the field. Where is your innovation and great strength in the name of the youth going to come from? We have to empower even at the leadership level. Personally, my commitment to my constituents is that the next Member of Parliament will be a youth come 2020. This is a personal vocation I have given to the people of my constituency because if we are not getting the transitions right certainly, we are not in our laurels. We have to learn from the history of this nation, we have talked ably about people like Tom Mboya and the people of the stature of Kenneth Gido wa Matiba. We have looked at industrial leaders and business titans such as Jeremy Awori and it is not a shock that the son is today running ABSA Bank Kenya. These things are generational. Today, in USA we celebrate an icon called Kobe Bryant who passed away at the age of 41 years but the impact onto the lives of Americans in sports in unheard of. At the age of 18 years, the kid had belief in himself and transformed a sport called basketball. He showed there is hard work, tenacity and values towards success that can be given. He retired at the age of 41 but his impact to the nationhood of USA is seen in a generation and there are great players who have gone through it."
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