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    "id": 1089181,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1089181/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, in this country, we have a law about credit and contracts to help young people. I think it was promoted by Sen. Sakaja, my distinguished nephew. If you go to counties all over the country, including where we come from, you cannot exhaust the fingers on one hand if you count the young people who have benefited from contractual facilities in the county. Even when contracts are segregated for young people, you will find it is the old people masquerading as young people who are awarded those contracts. So, how will the young grow? We need to have a very deliberate legal regime with attendant penalties for those who flout the law to bring young people to their fall. We have many young people with ideas. I do not think that the young man who invented M-Pesa, which is now an international celebrity, got what he deserved in terms of innovation. Look at what M-Pesa has done in revolutionizing online lending and transfer of money in this country. Everybody is now hooked to M-Pesa. Everyone transacts cashless in conducting business because of an innovation by a young Kenyan. I remember when we went with President Kibaki to the United Nations (UN). Michael Joseph, the then Managing Director (MD) of Safaricom came to the UN to receive an international UN award for innovation on the basis of M-Pesa, which has now been replicated all over the world. There are many others."
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