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    "id": 1128490,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1128490/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ndia, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. George Kariuki",
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        "id": 13450,
        "legal_name": "George Macharia Kariuki (GK)",
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    "content": "where KIRDI comes in handy. We need to support it and put in more resources to help our youth get into active economic activities. I know that many times when we talk about public participation, we think of going out there to talk to the public about the importance of the Bills we make here. However, it goes beyond that. Public participation is the ability of every citizen to contribute to the wellbeing and growth of the country. There are about 2 million Kenyan taxpayers today. Compare that to the number of Kenyan voters who are about 17 million. If those numbers are compared to the number of Kenyans doing other activities, you will see that the reason why we are not able to contribute by paying taxes is because Kenyans are not empowered enough. The best way to empower Kenyans is to invest more in industrialisation. One reason why we have not been able to get to that level is the quality of our governance. Good governance is about provision of goods and services to our people and being able to better our market efficiencies. We cannot take this country forward if we do not embrace good governance. Good governance is being able to empower the people at the bottom - what we call the bottom-up economy. Help that young man who just left university or Form Four the other day to go to a Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET) institute, get skilled and be able to do something active. It does not necessarily have to be a white collar job, but they should be able to set up something in the village, not necessarily in Nairobi, and put food on the table. This is what we are talking about when we say that we want to grow this country from the bottom-up. We want to invest down there at the grassroots, not up here where the Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (KEMSA) billionaires will take away everything, and where dynasties and those who have reigned for many years want to manage us. We want to grow from the bottom up. We want to use the wheelbarrow because it is a good symbol of where we are going. It is a symbol of struggle and success. I have used that wheelbarrow."
}