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    "id": 1089309,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1089309/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang’",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I rise to support the Start-Up Bill sponsored by Sen. Sakaja who in the lingua of some of the schools we went to is my rubble at the Duke of York. We were not there at the same time. I did not get the opportunity to send him for bread or to bully him. However, he had the opportunity of bullying me when I joined Parliament because I joined after him. This is a wonderful Bill. These are the conversations we should be having in the Senate. They say that this is a House of elders but the ideas that come here will tell you that being youth or elderly is just a matter of perception. It is all up there in the brain. Kenya has been called the Silicon Savannah. Out of Kenya, out of this Savannah, many ideas have flourished. Madam Temporary Speaker, in the brief Sen. Sakaja shared with us, he has mentioned organizations like Cellulant. Many people might not know what Cellulant does. They might be thinking that it is just an aggregator for payment solutions. I have had opportunity in my past life to partner with Cellulant through the company I was working for then to come up with a weather index based insurance program that was reliant on technology. We would provide agriculture insurance to farmers. Agriculture is vulnerable to the weather and climate. We installed devices that would then measure the precipitation, humidity and temperature. If it failed below a certain threshold, then we would compensate the farmers. That meant the farmers were shielded from the vagaries of nature. If there was less rainfall, the insurance company would pay. However, that could only be enabled through technology. It is not just a matter of observing or looking at the clouds and saying it appeared hot. We came up with solutions; there were SMSs, monitors. All that was done at a time when such ideas were new, not just in Africa, but globally."
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