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    "id": 1089395,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1089395/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "I gave the example of the young man from Dandora who, together with Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jr. and a cohort of many other young people, we took to Konza for competition. He was a young boy of six years who had just started encountering what a computer is, and he won coding competitions. The possibilities are limitless. Madam Temporary Speaker, Sen. Were asked, how do we define the start-ups and there must be clarity. There is a definition in the Bill. However, it is a young company that is founded to develop a unique product and can be quickly scaled. We must talk about scalability and ideally driven with technology. This is not a Bill for any new company. We have the Company’s Act and other legislations. I keep telling you, if you want to work for that, you can do it. This is the place we see as a new frontier that is emerging that Kenya is being seen to provide rapidly growing start-ups. I will give you some examples. There is Twiga Foods. I spoke about them last time. It is part of the group that Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jr. introduced me to. He made some very life changing introductions. They link farmers to kiosks. They are now raising USD60 million. They are directly employing 800 people in the country. They have now scaled and are going international. Those are the kinds of companies we are targeting that start from a shoestring budget or a noble idea, but can quickly scale. That is the potential we have. You can have your idea or innovation around frying mandaz i. You have started it up in the English definition but it is not a start-up. It is about the scalability and we must focus on it and it must be driven by technology. That is the only way to go international. Look at Ponea Health Kenya by Mike Macharia. It is telemedicine where you can get diagnosis of more than 1000 different fields from the phone. Right now, they are employing 80 people at it is started just a few months ago. So, there are many examples of these that I gave. For example, Cellulant, they are doing amazing things."
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