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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Oketch Gicheru",
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    "content": "not influence or do not inform the action or inaction of the county or the national Government. Therefore, even though they contribute to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by creating employment, the citizens working in the creative economy, opportunities, both short-term and long term and even sometimes midterm, are still exposed to the vagaries of inadequate public policy. We have seen several places where the young people are running gigs here and there or are encapsulated in music, they are in the arts and all these other places. They pay taxes as a result of the activities in the creative economy that they are involved in and they contribute to the GDP in a variety of ways. However, there is no investment support that ensures that the creative economy can grow. Some of these things happen due to the fact that the Government is sometimes misinformed on what the creative economy entails. This Bill will seek to define what we think the creative economy is. That definition will inform the proper housing of this creative economy. Currently, as I said, the creative economy is housed under the Ministry of Sports and Culture, because people in the creative industry are not seen as the traditional areas of professionalism. They are not seen as doctors, lawyers or the traditional industries where the finance people, medics and engineers are. They are sometimes seen by culture as people who might have failed in life, so the creative economy has been left as an economy of the last resort. If you have failed in other cultural opportunities or other traditional industries, if you fail to be a doctor or a lawyer, like my good friend, Sen. Chimera, who is a very good lawyer--- I got to realize this when I went to Diani. He has a very good law firm--- or an engineer, then automatically you are seen as someone who should go into the creative industry. I am imagining a conversation between young people like what Sen. Orwoba was talking about with her 17-year-old son. When you tell your mum or dad, “Hey, Mum, I want to become a musician.” That can be a very traumatising conversation between a mum and her son. Or “Hey, Dad, I want to leave school and become a comedian.” It will be a very big problem and a very big conversation. There is one comedian that I followed for a while from South Africa called Trevor Noah. He had this kind of conversation with his parents and they were very concerned that he was going to become a clown. The opportunity in the creative industry is humongous for young people. We must structure it right. What this Bill wants for the first time is to take it from the Ministry of Sports and Culture and put it in the Ministry of Trade and Industry and bring about the investment culture in it."
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