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    "id": 1089372,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri",
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        "legal_name": "Samson Kegeo Ongeri",
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    "content": "wealth of this nation in the human capital who can then set up the human wealth in this nation. I am happy that this Bill is coming in at the right time. When we started setting up vocational and technical training institutes in all the counties which are listed under Schedule Four, they were given to the county governments. It was meant that the county governments be agencies for development apart from just employment, so they should create innovative centers where they can invest money so that they can bring up the micro and medium scale enterprises to support the growth of that county as well as the growth of our children in that county. They should therefore be spread out rather than people coming to crowd in Nairobi, Mombasa, Kisumu, Eldoret and Nakuru, which have major industries. People should set up their incubation centres even at the ward level. The Ward Development Fund should go to promote the basic knowledge and science so that people become self- reliant at that level and are thus able to promote their own science and wealth at that level. If that happens, we can claim to be free as a nation; economically, socially and politically. Until those three elements are met, it is going to be very difficult for us to achieve freedom. In the area of health, there is so much that can be done in terms of innovations. We do not have to ask for anything. Innovations can be done on everything including traditional medicine to conventional medicine. The Indians and Chinese have done their Ayurvedic inventions, which are working extremely well. The potential is therefore very high. I have set up one of the technical institutes which we call, Machine Tooling Complex in Kisii County in one of the areas where I was a Member of Parliament (MP) in Nyaribari Masaba. The Machine Tooling Complex in Kisii County cost over Kshs1.5 billion. Those are the centres where you can train young people post primary or secondary school for them to get the necessary technology. Such a move will help a farmer be self-sufficient. Now that the rural electrification programme has taken electricity to the rural areas, people with skills will be needed to do wiring and other electrical repairs. Our road network is being done so people who are versed with the knowledge on road maintenance will be needed rather than spending a lot of money on big contractors. The Start-Up Bill is very important. I do not know whether Sen. Sakaja has made provision in this Bill that we should demand that a particular percentage of the national revenue goes into research and development of the incubation centres because that is the only way that we can make the presence of incubation centres felt in this nation. There will be no better contribution by any nation than to apportion some of its national revenue to the development of research and innovation in all these areas. We should encourage some of the industrial complexes that are setting up industries in this country to also sponsor incubation centres in our universities such as the Manu Chandaria Innovation Centre in Kenyatta University. Why do we not encourage some of the African entrepreneurs who have billions of shillings to sponsor some of these incubation centres in some of our universities or technical institutes at the county level? I suggest and recommend that the taxes paid by such big companies should go to research and development so that these things become part of our culture and innovations"
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