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    "id": 705367,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/705367/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kinoti",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Boniface Gatobu Kinoti",
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    "content": "Government through the New Deal to support youth employment. This is not just history. Even in our country, you remember the recession of 2008 when the current President, Hon. Uhuru, was the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance. We got out of that through empowering the local systems to create employment through the Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP). This is what we are seeking, as legislators, to entrench in our laws. The Government should provide a structured way that seeks to create employment and empower young people who have ideas. We should get it out of our minds that empowering the youth is just favouring the young people of Kenya. Empowering the youth through the establishment of innovation centres that we are speaking of today, and making the National Youth Service (NYS) that has been troubled with many challenges an institution that works well, the ideas that we develop in the incubation centres will be for the good of our country. As leaders, let us not always think that the things that we do to empower the youth is just favouring them. Actually, we do a great service to our country through empowering the youth. Last week, I had the privilege of being the chief guest at the Kenya Methodist University (KeMU) Entrepreneurship Week. I was shocked to see the number of ideas our young people have. But you do not expect a youth, who has just graduated from the university with a great idea of how to make an electronic industry, to risk taking a loan from a bank or the Youth Enterprise Fund on an industry that he or she is not sure will work. Therefore, through such incubation centres, as we are proposing in this Motion, we can have entrepreneurs transfer the risk to the Government. The Government is the largest institution everywhere in the world. It is the largest corporate body you can ever do business with. Therefore, it is the institution that can only bear the risk that our young entrepreneurs have. We do not have the machinery, as young entrepreneurs, to do market surveys across the world. We do not have the machinery to do research on the markets that we want to venture into, but we have the ideas. Young Kenyans have great ideas. We can only harness the potential of our country through having a structure in which we can harness these ideas and develop them from just ideas to powerful institutions or industries that can empower our youth. So, I am in strong support of this Motion knowing that if we have innovation centres where we can develop the ideas that we have among our young people, we can do much. Hon. Mwaura has given a very long list of what we use today, applications like"
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