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    "id": 705370,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kinoti",
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        "legal_name": "Boniface Gatobu Kinoti",
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    "content": "we can develop as a nation. There is so much energy in our youths. Our youth have so many ideas. There is so much strength in our youth that if we tap into it, we can take Kenya to the next level and make it a great country. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker and my colleagues, we rise in strength and in support of this Motion. I also encourage Hon. Mwaura to move it even into a Bill. We have done so much on youth empowerment. I wish to thank Hon. Sakaja, who moved the National Employment Authority Bill. I also wish to thank Hon. Jomo, who is also a Member of JYPA and who moved the Banking Act (Amendment) Bill that now makes it possible for Kenyans to access cheaper loans. Young Kenyans across this country even if we do not have a structure as Government to empower their ideas, can walk into a bank and get money at a low interest rate to develop their ideas. I wish to thank the Government as well. I have mentioned that we benefited as Buuri Constituency from the electrification project. Let us move all these loose ideas that we have from just ideas into a structured way of empowering our young people. The National Employment Authority Bill also caters for young Kenyans who innovate, but who also seek employment. At the end of the day, we cannot all be entrepreneurs or innovators. Some of the youths are more comfortable working in a structured institution that has been established by another corporation or entrepreneur. I believe this is the way to go. The world history has taught us so. I mentioned about what the richest country in the world did to get out the New Deal through structures like the Tennessee Valley Authority and they employed millions of young Americans to put them into work and stimulate economic growth. In our country, through the Economic Stimulus Programme of 2008, we created a lot of employment around fish farming and construction. Through that, we lifted this country from the economic recession of 2008 to a large economic growth in 2009. Therefore, I believe that through innovation centres, we will support young Kenyans who have ideas. Let us appreciate this idea because it is a great asset. Let us not look at ideas as assets in terms of money, steel, concrete and what we can see. Let us see ideas as great assets that can be used to empower our country. In the same breadth, I have moved an amendment Bill that seeks to have the Government commit 10 per cent of its normal revenue every financial year to the ICDC so that it can help to set up strategic industries. These industries can only be set up through ideas that are generated by the youth. What we are seeing around our country today is a product of what other countries have done for their citizens. We have very large Chinese construction companies in this country. We think they are individuals’ ventures, but they are not. It was an individual who had an idea, a Chinese, who thought that he could establish a good construction company that can crisscross the world. Those are the large Chinese companies that we see today. Why can we not give a chance to young Kenyans or any Kenyan who has an idea? We should empower them and transfer the risk from that small innovator who does not know how to go along the way, to the Government. Let the Government take the idea, develop it and we set aside enough capital to transform these ideas into industries. I beg to second. Thank you and God bless Kenya."
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