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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Tobiko",
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    "content": "and tell me how long it will take to get spare parts in the country. What these people need is encouragement, financial support and time to grow and establish themselves. As we think of supporting startups and innovations, we must think of how to get rid of corruption in this country. You will find good ideas being stolen from the initiators because they cannot finance themselves. A good example is M-Pesa and many others. There are people sitting on ideas because they fear that if they bring them out, someone else will take advantage and run away with the ideas before they are owned by people who should benefit. Madam Temporary Speaker, I support this Bill because it will be the solution to the many challenges we face today. They are technological and business challenges. We desperately need employment opportunities as a nation to sort out unemployment in this country. Today, the Committee on Education was meeting the National Industrial Training Authority (NITA) and they told us how we are exporting labour to the Middle East. You will realize that our own institutions are yet to be liberated. We are still talking about exporting domestic workers. Honestly, as a country, we should be ashamed of ourselves. We can present the image of Kenyan in a better way because we have people with brains. The other day, the President, while in Paris, gave a fabulous speech. He said that we are the home of athletes, which is true. We should also pride ourselves as a home of innovators and home of technological export and not domestic workers, where we take our children to the Middle East to be mistreated. We should not pride ourselves earning from that. Even if we must export homecare service providers, let me put it in a better language, let us export quality by taking people who are well trained in hospitality, housekeeping and nursing services. Even if we are going for the lowest jobs which are available globally, we can put our best foot forward. These women are getting frustrated in the Middle East because they have not been well trained. We find a whole Government institution saying that they are training in two or three weeks, yet we know that there is no such training that can enable somebody to handle jobs out there. To protect the Kenyan name and carry the flag high, we must export better technology and innovation that can change the globe. I thank you for this opportunity. I congratulate Sen. Crystal Asige for taking this chance to bring good legislation."
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