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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Tobiko",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker for this chance to contribute to this Bill. I take this opportunity to congratulate my sister who is visually impaired, Sen. Crystal Asige, for this wonderful piece of legislation. This is among the very many Bills that we have encountered on the Floor of the Senate since we joined. This is a good Bill. It is a good Bill because it is futuristic. It has a future, it has the potential to change a lot of things in our country, particularly in the way that we do business and the way that our youth will get engaged, going forward. Madam Temporary Speaker, I support the Startup Bill because it will give us a solution to a number of problems we are facing right now. One of the problems we face in this country is unemployment. Everywhere you go to when you want to get elected, people tell you that they need jobs. We have educated youth who are just at home because they do not have jobs. If both national and county governments encouraged development of business innovations and technological advancements, we would have our youth with work to do. Our children do not lack brains and the necessary education. They have education, brains, energy and the drive. However, they lack goodwill and support from we in leadership and our institutions. We must change that. I agree with Sen. Crystal Asige. Just like the way you bring up a child to grow and you protect them, it is the same way we should protect startups. They can rise and fall but they need to get necessary encouragement and financial support. Some ideas that people have can change the business landscape and the economy of this country. That is the way to go. I always speak to my kids. I have two young girls with good entrepreneurial ideas. I always tell them that Nairobi City and surrounding towns such as Kitengela which grow every day are not because of salaried people. The skyscrapers are mostly built by people who have ideas and the courage to take their ideas to the next level and their ideas are brought to fruition. We have not given our children an enabling environment and the necessary support. I believe startups are meant for young people. We do not give them the necessary support. You will find them starting businesses and after a short while, they owe the KRA because they have not filed the necessary returns. Before they start operating their businesses, they have debts which they must pay. We need to be sensitive because these are our children and people we lead. It is a growing community and that is our future. If we increase the incubation period, whatever financial backup they will receive, it will enable them to grow. Good ideas will eventually come. People will afford to pay loans as long as ideas are viable. That is why I support that we must go out of the way to support innovations and start-ups. I agree with my colleagues who have talked about technology. The world is moving and Kenya must move at the same speed. Madam Temporary Speaker, I have realized that our children have better ideas than us. Sometimes I take my car to the garage when I need it repaired. Of late, I have found solutions from my own children. They google and give me options. They use Apps"
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