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    "id": 705369,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kinoti",
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        "legal_name": "Boniface Gatobu Kinoti",
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    "content": "and Facebook . Our young people have many great ideas. As the Member of Parliament for Buuri, I have seen it work practically. The Jubilee Government initiated the StimaMtaani project and took electricity to areas which were not connected to power. Let us not think of innovation or youth empowerment in the structure of software development and the big things that we see in newspapers. It can happen in the small villages that we think of. I went to school in a very small village called Machaka, a rural slum somewhere in Buuri. All along, I kept thinking what we can do to empower the youth of Machaka. When the Government came up with Stima Mtaani, it connected about 3,000 homes in Machaka Village in partnership with the Buuri CDF without the villagers paying even a single cent. When the Managing Director (MD) of the Kenya Power Company came to launch the project, the villagers were so amazed that we could connect 3,000 homes to electricity without them paying anything. We started an innovation centre at Machaka where we train the youth on ICT, simple skills like beauty and hairdressing. Out of that small step in the small village in the rural slum of Machaka, right now, two barbers who serve in the Parliamentary Service Commission barber shop are from the village of Machaka. I believe through incubation centres and youth empowerment strategies, 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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