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    "id": 1128517,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1128517/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nyando, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jared Okelo",
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        "legal_name": "Jared Odoyo Okelo",
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    "content": "is no longer as juicy as it used to be. If agriculture is the only thing that we are going to remain with or have as our main source of revenue, let all the parameters governing agriculture and trade be enhanced through this most important KIRDI Bill. Any business idea will be shared with KIRDI for success and even for its formation. I reckon the good work that the social media is doing. But, blogging is not work. There are people who have created wonderful platforms such as M-PESA in the social media. It is our biggest achievement as a nation. People are wondering how people transfer monies using a mobile phone? Even Americans were asking me this same question. That was birthed by one of our own. A Kenyan came up with this idea. These are the kinds of innovations that we need to have, not somebody sitting from morning to evening calling himself a blogger yet the main work is to insult other people. It is even worse in our politics. People will call you names, people who do not even qualify to even address you on any subject. When we were going to school – you know about this very well because you went to school – there was a category of people who were not allowed to talk where the educated were. But today they are now hiding behind their cell phones and also trying to address us. They want us to buy their ideas, ideas that do not pass for anything. Therefore, I want to challenge the young people. We recognise that you have your phones, tablets and computers and that at the touch of a button you can inflame a country. I have seen many people who have been denied jobs because, when they carry out your background check, they even check what you wrote at a particular time in your life. Social media never forgets. This is a message that must be very clear. Before you press that “send” button, I want to challenge our young people, think twice. Is it something that will come later to haunt you and to deny you opportunities? I know that, at a time such as this, politicians both from this House and those who would want to come to this House and any other house in this country would want to engage those young people. Social media can only contain 256 human beings. Looking at the amount of information, insults and castigations in social media, you would think they are addressing a million people. It is only 256 people, some of whom are not even active on those social media platforms. So, on social media, I would challenge our young people to be as innovative as they can be. The M-PESA will ever remain a classic example and a beacon of hope and maturity in the usage of social media to this country and to the world at large. Therefore, I encourage all of us to support this Bill and enact it into law so that we can have a place where our people will be sending their ideas. Those ideas will be transformed into business enterprises and this country is going to have a rapid flight towards its economic progress. With those remarks, I support."
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