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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mungatana, MGH",
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    "content": "purposes using simple technology. He was using phone technology so you can know when you are supposed to irrigate the land, if the water is enough, and stuff like that. He really impressed me. Nonetheless, where is the money to help young people, such as those, to support their innovation and startups? We need to tell our Government and the Cabinet Secretaries in charge to think of ways and means of putting funds in this direction because that is what Article 7 of the IPU statutes has mandated our delegation to come and say here in this country. We have been mandated to move this so that the resolutions that they passed are given a life in this country. Therefore, as we debate this matter in this Senate, we are asking the Cabinet Secretary for National Treasury and Economic Planning and the relevant sector Cabinet Secretary who is in the microeconomic sector to please come up with a fund that is specifically for youth that can support our youth across the counties. Many counties have created funds to support business in general. Nonetheless, I am speaking about funds that will specifically support innovation and startups. I request that the national Government and our county governments create these funds, so that our young people can also have opportunities to make a living from the digital economy using the internet. That was a useful session, and it has opened the minds of many people. We are happy that the IPU is thinking in this direction. We pray that our members will continue to support us and help us to go in the right direction. Lastly, the final session was on promoting respect for cultural diversity in support of sustainable development. During that session, I just wanted to say one thing: I was requested just over last weekend to be a guest of honour at Pwani Cultural University in our neighbouring Kilifi County. They had a huge cultural day. One of the things I said was, “Yes, we have many diverse cultures within the university; those different cultural diversities should be our strength.” I felt that identifying people through their tribes and tribal allegiance was not really what I had hoped would happen among our children. When I was in university, we had that kind of thing. My prayer was that people would identify themselves in terms of counties, County X and County Y, not necessarily their tribal affiliation. Why? Because tribes in Kenya eventually will die. I am saying this because the kind of generation that we are raising is a Kenyan generation. We should put all effort into creating a Kenyan tribe if we like, but not necessarily promote certain tribes. We want Kiswahili to be the language we speak and, obviously, for official purposes, even English. This is what we are selling in the African Parliament when we go there. We want our countries to raise, in fact, not tribes but nations, and these nations to raise a continent called Africa, so that you will be happy to be in."
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