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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mwaura",
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        "legal_name": "Isaac Maigua Mwaura",
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    "content": "Another young man called Febrin Asiach has innovated very nice cooking jikos that would save the energies of our mothers, communities and help in deforestation. All these innovations will help the country to move forward. These are not the only young people. They are many and I could mention them. Most of us always go to the Annual Youth Innovation Week when we have time and we see wonderful ideas that if given an opportunity, would transform this society. Most Members will remember their days in high school when they used to attend the Science Congress. They would do wonderful presentations. My good friend, Irungu Kangáta, was telling me how he had made some invention of some kind of a car that was some form of jalopy. The good thing about it is that we need to nurture and encourage our young people. The new industries that are being developed world over are not in the traditional form. The new industries that are making people millionaires and billionaires overnight are new, very novel and different. Therefore, what is it that we are doing in this country to help our young people to ensure that they not just spend their days wallowing, tarmacking and looking for white collar jobs? Our economy is largely agriculture-based. We are also a transit economy because of our vantage point which is the port of Mombasa. These things are being challenged by the fact that now we have a competing railway which is going through Tanzania. We now have a pipeline that may go through Djibouti. So, our vantage point is at risk. With regard to agriculture, because of our poor land tenure system, we have decimated our land to the point that it has become unviable in many of our rural areas. Because of our inheritance system, we have people ending up in quarter acres of land and yet those are their homesteads. I can cite Kiambu, Kisii and Vihiga counties where we basically have rural slums. We need to have a paradigm shift. We need to develop a new way of doing things. The only way we can do so is by looking at the new technology and investing in our young people because they are made of fine clay. They have fine brains. Recently Mark Zuckerberg visited our country. He is a young man at the university who is very rich. He came here dressed down, but he is one of the most influential individuals. All of us here are using his innovation to communicate to our constituents and other people who we The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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