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    "content": "Congratulations Professor. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I rise to second. Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo defined science and innovation. However, allow me, by way of example, to comment on something about innovation. A few years ago, a little boy in Busia used to sneak contraband from the Kenyan side of the border to the Ugandan side of the border. He would get more contraband from one side and sneak it to the other side. You should not think that he was not doing it himself. He was carrying the traffickers themselves. They called him the boy who moves from one border to the other border. They called him the boda boda boy. Through that innovation, this boy is the answer to hundreds of thousands of youth who today earn a living from boda boda . That is called innovation. We have to be simple. We do not need to have the kind of degrees that Professor has and which our Speaker, this afternoon, has. We do not need them. All we need is a desire to contribute something to the society. Research, science and innovation are very important in the US. During the Presidential campaigns when candidates are engaged in Presidential campaign, every candidate must speak to four things. They must speak to foreign policy, local and international security and US economy. But more importantly, the winning candidate must have a clear policy on research, science and technology because that is the only thing that gives America an edge over the rest of us. I cannot fail to pay tribute to retired President Moi on this Motion because of the wrongs he did. I remember the good old days during the struggle when we were discontinued from the university. We were jailed at chief centres, but that is not the issue. The issue is that I am paying tribute to Moi because he had the right attitude to education. In the first ten years of his rule - I think you were in nursery school then - the President was clear minded and he came up with the Nyayo Car. However, the gangsters who used to surround him made him lose focus and the Nyayo Car collapsed. Today, we are having the Numerical Machines Complex. If only somebody had pursued that---"
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