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    "id": 705359,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/705359/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mwaura",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13129,
        "legal_name": "Isaac Maigua Mwaura",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we need to encourage our youth. When I listen to them, they are complaining of the fact that when they come up with innovations they do not have funds to propagate those innovations. We are not talking about colossal amounts of money. We are talking about hundreds of thousands of shillings or a million or two that would help a young person turn his idea into a viable prototype. As you know very well, the challenge of innovation is that we have moved from invention because you just conglomerate a set of ideas to create a new product. This is because a lot has been advanced. If you look at the pattern regime of this country, how many patterns do we have in this country? If they exist, are they just on paper? Our youth lack mentorship. They do not know who to go to. I know we have established institutions like the National Commission for Science, Technology and Innovation (NACOSTI). However the problem with NACOSTI is that we have populated it with academics, that is, people who have PhDs. Those are theorists and they have never invented or innovated anything. However, they are there by virtue of their academic credentials and so they reproduce themselves. They over-analyse and over-theorize issues."
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