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    "id": 1089248,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1089248/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 440,
        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "Madam Deputy Speaker, I thank Sen. Sakaja because he has been consistent in pursuing Bills that are useful to young people, particularly on matters relating to innovation. This is a very good Bill. I say so because there are things that we take for granted in this county. A lot of the submissions that have been made on the Floor of this House by those who spoke before me gave a lot of consideration on the area of innovation. However, this Bill is not just about innovation. This Bill caters for even those who are starting simple businesses. For instance, if one wants to start suppling goods and services to a Government, or a non-governmental facility or even when you want to start a simple shop to sell spare parts. This Bill is about beginning; starting a business, innovation or investing in a technology. We should not make this Bill so complex that those people who are following these proceedings think that there is a complex Bill that is being passed in the Senate of Kenya called the Start-Up Bill (Senate Bills No. 1 of 2021). Start-up is just about businesses that are beginning, technologies that are beginning to inventions that are at the beginning stage. The question that every inventor or a person starting business always asks is, where do I start from? Someone may have an idea to beginning an agri-business and the question that they ask themselves is where they will get the capital to engage in that business. The most important part of this Bill is that it gives the youth answers on where to start from, the offices to go to and where to get information. I appreciate the fact that the Bill recognizes that the agency established in this Bill is going to become a one stop shop where information on startups is going to be located. The second question that most people who want to startup is where do they get the knowledge to improve on what they have. If one is thinking about starting a livestock business, they wonder where they are going to get the knowledge to improve on the breeds. If one is to start rearing goats today, where will they get the market to sell the goats. This Bill should not be so complex that a pastoralist sitting somewhere in North Easter, Rift Valley, Coast or any other part of this county feels that this is just going to cater to elites in urban areas. The institution must be accessible to every business person who want to start a business. It does not have to be the complex business of starting a new IT business. It should also include the livestock farmers in Wajir, Mandera, Narok, Kajiado, Turkana, West Pokot or any other part of this country where pastoralism is practiced. Madam Deputy Speaker, this Bill is very useful to the extent that we are going to have an institution which is established as an agency with trustees whose business is to"
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