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    "id": 1089399,
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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": "Madam Temporary Speaker, we will input the money Bill aspects including the fund and anything that deals with tax in the National Assembly. We have been discussing with Members who are waiting for the Bill so that they can input those interventions that will go a long way in changing the framework through which we are dealing with start- ups and incubators. I must thank all these young people who came. It was an informal public participation that has never been done before in Parliament. People were organizing their own meetings and talking about the Bill in Voi, Turkana and Nakuru. We have put 90 per cent of all the recommendations. Thank you, Sen. Halake, Sen. M. Kajwang’. I also thank the CEO of Kenya National Innovation Agency (KeNIA) whom we were talking with. He said that one of the challenges is that KeNIA was only supposed to get funding from the National Research Fund (NRF) and there has been issues of governance but now they will get funding directly. We have not created another agency. We are dealing with what is already there. This is because I believe it is the correct agency. Allow me to leave it to that. I have much more to say. However, I assure Members that some of the proposals will come in the Committee stage and we will put them in. I am happy that this is now domiciled under the Committee on Information, Communication and Technology led by Sen. Moi and Sen. Halake. I am sure that they will listen again to those whose views have not been put in. Madam Temporary Speaker, I beg to reply. However, pursuant to Standing Order No. 61(3), I request that the question be put at later date."
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