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    "id": 705417,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/705417/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ogolla",
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        "legal_name": "Gideon Ochanda Ogolla",
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    "content": "exams that they do from time to time. This is where we have a problem. We need to differentiate what we are calling innovation and incubation. For purposes of innovation, some very deliberate efforts must be done in this country, particularly in isolating the kind of challenges that we experience as a people. Many times, we normally say that challenge calls for response. Immediately we identify challenges and we code or list them and everybody is aware that these are the kind of challenges that we have, there will always be a constant attempt to come up with avenues or alternatives and minds that are able to think in terms of how to respond to those challenges. We have not done enough on this. The poverty levels keep growing and poverty, just like corruption, fights back. It constantly puts us in a simple mind all the time. It also puts us in some kind of quick solutions that, by the end of the day, we go round in circles without getting out of poverty. We have set up funds and we keep on creating them. Whether it is Uwezo Fund, the YEDF or whatever funds we create, all of them are still tailored towards addressing some of the things that we are very sure and very much aware that they have failed. So, we are in a situation where we are going round in circles but we are not helping our people improve. This is so because of the leaner way of how we think and how we want things to be easy in terms of how we want to either monitor them or check them without creating space for people to be creative. The entire Parliament could not be aware that USAID, the American Fund, has what they are calling the innovation machine. This is a fund that is in this country and they are calling out on minds and people who have creative ways of addressing some of the challenges we have in the nation. Who is thinking slightly different from what is going on? Who is bringing out some value addition, whether in terms of thought lines, products or how things are arranged? If it is visible that there is something you are coming up with that can enhance certain efforts, they are able to fund. This is happening in this country. In a similar manner, we wonder why some of the minds we have in the Government cannot sit down and check how we address these things. Things are very scattered and nobody knows who is doing what and where. So, when we talk about issues of incubation, which I now want to separate from innovation, we can handle incubation in a manner that we do not even have to go national. We can have it in a small way at the location, village or county. We do not have to look at it in terms of the national arrangement. Our media is doing a lot. I have been very impressed with the weekend newspapers."
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