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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I can see that Sen. Murkomen did not listen to what I said. I talked about your exuberance but you have isolated the word, child, from the sentence. This is a good Bill that can help this country. From our Independence, we always talk about the youth as the leaders of tomorrow. We need to make the youth the leaders of today not just in politics but in every aspect of life. The whole world is now technologically driven. China was a very backward country in the 1960’s. Today, they are ruling the world. India was a very backward country in the 1960’s, but today with over 1.3 billion people, it is feeding the world after feeding themselves. In the early 1960s to 1970s in this country, you were considered unfortunate if you were seen driving a Japanese car because everybody was driving European cars. It had to be a Citroen, Peugeot or Mercedes. Today, people pick European cars as a second choice because of technological innovations and advancement in Japan, Korea and other Eastern countries. The countries that have embraced science and innovation have made major strides. Ten years ago, Saudi Arabia, that is a 100 percent desert, started exporting wheat to countries with better climate because of innovation. We can count on and on. Back home, we need to make a deliberate act and decisions that help our youth engage in innovation and develop technology that can change our society. Mr. Speaker, Sir, there is a friend of mine who told me that his son finished engineering at the University of Nairobi and when he tried to get him a job, he refused. He wanted to go and bring change to farming. The young man as an engineer is now a consummate farmer and has changed the fortunes of his father’s farm. When we talk about innovation, it is not limited to the youth because one can be innovative even at the age of 60 to 70 years, depending on your will, determination and drive. Young people have better capacity, ability and time to be more innovative. The investments are not even big. We have agencies in this country that ought to be helping young people but when you look at even the number of people appointed to positions of responsibility, even in those agencies, the youth are not thought about seriously."
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