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    "id": 1262223,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "lecturers and the vice chancellors. In fact, when you ask them about research funding, they tell you that it there is zero funding. The only funding, they get is from donors. Can you believe that blood samples that are taken from Mosoriot Sub County Hospital have to be flown all the way to Oxford and other universities for research? The worst part is that they do not pay. Secondly, when they publish their research, they do not acknowledge even one doctor from Kenya because they are the ones funding the research. There is a thin line between organ harvesting and taking specimens to do research in international universities. This is because we do not have funds at Moi University School of Medicine and UoN to do research. The Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) and the Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Service (KEPHIS), among other organisations are struggling. You can imagine blood samples being taken from Nandi County to go and do research all the way at Oxford University. That borders organ harvesting and transplanting, where our blood is used for doing research and we are not even acknowledged because we are beggars. We have extended a bowl. We are just begging and asking them for money to do research. That is why they feel they even have a right to take specimens of organs and blood to go and do research in their countries. We do not have a legal framework on research. As Sen. Crystal Asige has said, let us partner with research institutions and the business community. However, we must do it in a proper way. I agree with the Government that we must change the funding model. I hope the new funding model will assist in carrying out of research by our universities, other institutions of higher learning and the business community as proposed by Sen. Crystal Asige. I agree with her that we need to form an agency that will ensure that it becomes easy to register and do business. In the Attorney-General’s Office, they have Registrar of Treaties. I urge the Attorney-General, Hon. Justin Bundi Muturi, that if this becomes law, they should also create Registrar of Start-Ups because we only have Registrar of Treaties, so that it is easy for young people to process their issues. That is possible because it only requires direction by Attorney-General’s Office. Online marketing and sales have increased. Nowadays, if you want to buy something, you just do online shopping through an app. I am happy that many young people have installed apps for buying items online. I used to go to Gikomba and Toy markets. Madam Temporary Speaker, as you are aware, I am not a man of means. I just shop where other Kenyans shop. If in the evening when I am walking around I spot a nice tie, I will just buy it from the hawkers because we are promoting the local ‘hustle’. We are promoting from ‘bottom’ as we go up. We have now moved to online. No one will see who is shopping online. I thank the young people because they have protected us. That online application, Sen. Kavindu"
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