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    "id": 1506855,
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    "speaker_name": "Langata, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Phelix Odiwuor",
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    "content": "I hope to come back and feel what she felt when a first-timer gets a chance to speak before a ranking Member. With her sitting next to me, I should have been quiet throughout while she spoke. Having said that, let me go straight to the debate before us and appreciate our Senator, Hon. Asige, and Hon. Irene Mayaka for bringing this Bill to the House. I am a Member who was elected in Nairobi, where so many young men and women now believe in what they can do. That is what they call ‘start-ups.’ There is an influx of start- ups. Every single young man and woman hope that their dreams can come true with the simple things they are doing with the hands and creativity. I just want to give a few examples. I want to give the example of a start-up fashion designer, who has taken over the fashion industry. She is now ruling the industry. Yvonne’s Afrostreet Kollektions is a big start-up. Home 254 is a big start-up. Art Feet is a big start-up. Even on the ICT platform, Nairobi Gossip Club, which they call ‘Gen Zs NGC’ is a big start-up that runs media and information in this City. Those young people’s start-ups would just die if they were never given a chance to show what they can do. Again, the young people of today believe in themselves more because of one thing. Ten or twenty years of experience is the first thing that is asked of those who have just completed studies whenever they seek employment. Where are they going to get that experience when they have just left universities or colleges? That is why we have an influx of start-ups that need to be protected. Picking from the Bill, start-ups must be given tax holidays. Those are just young people who are trying to figure out what is next for them. They want to know what is next for their big ideas. Any young man trying something for themselves should register companies and start for free. They should even be given a tax holiday to start up whatever their ideas. Most of the billionaires we see today started as start-ups. See someone like Elon Musk. He is almost the richest man in the world. He started up as a start-up. Look at Bill Gates and his college friends. Look at the founder of Facebook, Zuckerberg. He also just started with a few friends. It was just an idea; a start-up. We kindly ask that young people with great ideas should be given tax holidays and a chance to register their companies for free, so that they can implement their ideas. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I also request blue chip companies to open doors for start- ups. Many young people go out there to showcase their ideas only for them to come back and say that their ideas were stolen and then, boom! It becomes the idea number one in the market. We have many young people who are crying out there, looking for legal redress. They had ideas that were stolen by blue-chip companies. Blue chip companies should not steal young people’s ideas. They should instead hold the hands of such young people so that they can express themselves. I am here to support Sen. Asige and Hon. Irene Mayaka on this Start-up Bill and see to it that it comes to fruition. Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
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