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    "id": 1088087,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1088087/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, if you look at the kind of companies she was able to bring together for me some of those who were initially start-ups but have gone up. A company like Twiga Foods is doing millions of dollars and they are trying to raise more money. We met with Peter Njonjo, Africa’s Talking and Bila was there. If you look at Cellulant and Sendy that send parcels, Meshack was there. It is an amazing ecosystem and a huge frontier. Our ecosystem of start-ups has seen tremendous growth over the last few years. We can proudly call Kenya the true Silicon Savana of the world. Many years ago I was in San Francisco which is known as the Silicon Valley, the home of innovation. I went to a place. I was giving a talk. That was in 2014 or 2015 at a place called the Institute for the Future. When I was talking, one of these people asked me Mr. Sakaja, we are worried, concerned and surprised. We cannot understand and fathom. Why is it that there is so much amazing innovation coming from Kenya that is even rivalling that which is coming from San Francisco? I told them two things. Number one, necessity is a mother of invention. The world has become a global village driven by technology powered by information. That young person in Kenya has the same tools for coding because we have computers. The same tools that are used to innovate there are the same tools that we have. Madam Temporary Speaker, however, here we innovate to make sure farmers are able to get fertilizers. We innovate to make sure you can pay school fees or medicine can be sent across the country. There now because of the necessity, they are innovating for fashion and different needs. I told them you watch out Kenya is going to catch up. I told them to watch out because Kenya was going to catch up. You can imagine how they are amazed by things like M-pesa and our cash transfer, travel and agricultural innovations. I was speaking to this lady. I spoke to a certain lady from a company where they are doing agricultural soil-based indexing to make sure that the right fertilizer goes to the right place. Those are innovations coming out of Kenya. Our ecosystem is amazing and there is a lot of potential in this area."
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