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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "intervention policies, either by Acts of Parliament, or other policy measures, that have been prepared in this country before. First of all, in my contributions I will focus on what I consider to be important highlights of the Bill. Later on, I will share my thoughts also on what I think can be useful additions when we come to the Committee stage. Finally, just as a way of challenge to us because we are in leadership, we need to find it within ourselves small ways through which we can encourage innovation among our young people without even necessarily having to wait for an Act of Parliament to be passed for us to do it. Madam Deputy Speaker, I note that the Bill places obligation on our national and county governments to establish various incubation programmes. This is something that any leader can do because leadership is about rising to the challenges of the day; be it at national or county government level. Everybody knows that young people are grappling with unemployment and are bursting with ideas that they have no platform or enabling environment to bring out their potential. Somebody cheekily observed that the challenge with our country is that those with the ideas do not have the power and those with the power do not have the ideas. That is the mismatch of priority and mixture of talent we have in the Republic which we have to find ways of addressing and ensuring that there is a nexus between those with the power and those with the ideas. I guess that is what Sen. Sakaja is trying to address with this legislation. Madam Deputy Speaker, I hope once this Bill has gone through the processes of Parliament in both Houses and it is signed into law, many people will take it up to heart and provide the necessary support that is obligated both on the Government and also in the private sector. This is because there are obligations in this Bill. For example, it provides legal framework so that those who want to team up with young people in their innovations can do so without having to run into the various difficulties. I do not see nowadays a very popular programme that we used to have in our primary and secondary schools known as the science congress. This was where students would compete on various innovations based on the practical lessons that they learned in their science, physics or any other subject for that particular matter. The people would compete and begin at the interschool level and rise all the way to nationals. By the time you get to the nationals, the kind of innovations that people used to observe in those science congress fora were world-changing. Madam Deputy Speaker, as I have noted, this Bill is providing the legal framework for partnership between those young people that were generating those innovations and those with the money to fund those ideas. We all know every brilliant idea at some point struggles. On many occasions, young people come to my office in Parliament to explain to me brilliant innovative ideas they would wish to see in fruition. That is something that they have thought ways that they can do better in certain aspects. However, they lack the financial capacity and somebody to back them and the tools that are necessary which includes the necessary legal framework for them to have signed on partnerships with"
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