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    "id": 1089370,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1089370/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 124,
        "legal_name": "Samson Kegeo Ongeri",
        "slug": "samson-ongeri"
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, once you have these incubation centres, first of all, they promote innovation. Secondly, they provide entrepreneurship which is a critical factor. Third, they promote setting up of industries that grow up into conglomerates and, therefore, support this nation in one way or another. Four, they provide adequate employment for many Kenyans who are now out there looking for jobs. Five, we are able to provide the marketing strategy and entrepreneurship to the outside world beyond Kenya. This is a revolutionary Bill because it will nurture and mentor the people in this programme to exploit their potential. When we went to Korea to get money for Konza Technopolis City, we could not get it at that time because many people wanted to invest in the mobile buses in Nairobi. In Athi River, I convinced former President Moi that we should put up the technology centre in Athi River, which now produces the spare parts and everything else. At that time, I knew that South Korea was leading in technology development and we needed something like that to set up. We turned the national polytechnics into universities such as the Nairobi Polytechnic was changed to the Technical University of Kenya, Eldoret Polytechnic was changed to a university as well as the Ramogi Institute of Advanced Technology (RIAT). All those were supposed to be centres of excellence so that we can set up a model to promote our youth to develop towards the area of science and technology. The one thing that I am aware of is that even when we were negotiating for a biodiversity convention, the one thing that the developed countries could not let go is the transfer of technology because that is where the money lies; that is where the wealth of a state is. Once we have these innovations developing all over the country in areas such as agribusiness, the elements of microenterprises that will come out of the value addition in agribusiness are tremendous. That is more than enough to create wealth for our people leave alone employment and the sufficiency for food supply and availability of all the elements of food. Looking at the blue economy in Mombasa and the regions around Lake Victoria and other places can also generate wealth for our youth. There is so much that can be incubated in these areas and centres in the entire marine ecosystems. If you go to Kitui there are so many minerals and coal which are underlying. There is gold in Kakamega that can be innovated to get finer products that can be sold at very high marketable prices besides creating jobs and indications. We are spending so much money on our roads infrastructure systems. This is amazing. We could have reduced such costs by half if we developed our own innovative building materials that can be referenced to this country to create viable infrastructure systems that can carry the day. Aviation and motor vehicle industries are also going through innovations. The M-Pesa started as a great idea from this country and it is now being used all over the world because that is what innovation can do. Safaricom is racking in billions of shillings because that is how a country creates wealth through technology, which start by a very simple innovation. We need to get innovation from young people who can develop their acumen and inert scientific innovation to exploit the"
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