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    "id": 493706,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Onyura",
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        "legal_name": "Michael Aringo Onyura",
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    "content": "because the Motion is talking about promoting innovation and creativity. This Fund will encourage people to come up with new ideas and technologies. That way, where there is innovation and creativity then it is rewarded and encouraged. Of course, we should also be looking at training skills and equipment in these activities. Capital is very important, but by itself it is not bound to do very well unless it is accompanied by the necessary training and skills. In this regard, I think we should consider revamping our youth polytechnics and middle level colleges. It is very unfortunate that we have been rushing to turn our middle level colleges into universities. It is not that there is anything seriously wrong with that, but if it is not done in a planned way, the result is that we are likely to miss out on the middle level skills from technicians and the craft people. If we are not careful, we will have, perhaps, engineers and not people who are able to work competently below them. If we implement this sort of Fund, it will come in very handy in supporting all that we want to do for Vision 2030. We have just declared ourselves a middle level income country, and we would like the population on the ground to be able to reflect this. I feel that, if a fund is created and capital is accessed easily, maybe along the model of Uwezo Fund, and then made fast and more efficient and effective this will really benefit our people. As I conclude, what needs to be done is for us to ensure that for these funds that have been created we now carry out a proper evaluation and survey to ensure that they have, in fact, succeeded. That way, we will be able to know the challenges, failures, successes and lessons learnt. When we come up with this Fund we shall have sufficient information. We will be well equipped to make sure that it is a success and fits in well into Vision 2030 and the middle level economy that we have talked about here. I support the Motion. Thank you."
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