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    "id": 1180874,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1180874/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Rangwe, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) Lilian Gogo",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Speaker, we should be seen as a nation that has some concern in innovation by coming up with our own, especially in the automobile industry. We import parts which we could easily craft here. When this will be done by our team of well-trained engineers, we will create job opportunities for young people. What takes me aback is that we do not have any automotive system that we can call our own. When you go to the villages you will see young minds, children still in primary schools struggling to come up with aeroplane systems. They want to make things that would fly but this has not been well-captured and these talents remain untapped. This is a good Sessional Paper. We want to support creativity and innovation of our own. We lose a lot of money when we import from other countries. They gain from this thus take advantage of us. We should have a system of our own that we can also export to our neighbouring countries. This needs to be supported. As it has been elucidated, we need to support it with funds. We need to get to serious business. As a country and as a government, we need to come up with systems that are going to encourage experts in this area to continue with what they do best. We want to put food on the table of the ordinary Kenyan. Unless the country industrialises, unless we have industries where young Kenyans can earn a living and we appreciate them, we are retrogressing to several years after independence. I support this on the basis that we are even changing our curriculum to be competency based. This is oriented to talents and abilities of the young learners as they proceed. This can only work if we appreciate that we can come up with an automotive sector that is well regulated, funded, looked after and ran by professionals to the extent that we come up with systems that are sustainable. We have the motorcycle system right now. We have many young boda boda riders. I am not very sure that we are unable to come up with a factory that can produce parts for motorcycles. We have thousands of motorcycles in this country. I am imagining a situation where this Motion was well choreographed to the extent that we look at generating jobs for even women, young people and those with disability. If this happens, then it will raise our economy to the next level."
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