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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Dawood",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Abdul Rahim Dawood",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, that is his opinion and I will not fight with him because he has got a different way of thinking which does not augur well with me. Regarding our youth, it is very important that we have the incubation centres together with seed funding for the youth because right now, we have the Chandaria incubation centre. We need to come up with ways on how we are going to encourage our youth to be innovative. A case in point would be if you were to invest in youth programmes in the people who graduate in the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States of America (USA). They would be allowed to stay over if they are foreigners and can get seed money to do innovations. There was a gentleman who was in Kenya Methodist University (KeMU) where I was. He was very good in computer innovations, but he could not get support out there until he got employment with Google. He went to the USA and used to work in Ghana. However, he now works in East Africa and South Africa. Had we had these incubation centres in Kenya we could have had use of him, he could have innovated something for us and we could not have to import the way Hon. Mwaura has stated. We have the Bill Gates Foundation that supports youth innovations. We need to come up with our own Silicon Valley. We have Uber whose App is working in Kenya and we have our own who has innovated something close to Uber. We need the Government to come up with funding for such innovations. Hon. Wambui has said that whoever will be here in future will talk about how the youth will be assisted with funding for incubation centres. We have all been through secondary schools, and we have the Science Congress experience where we have participated in one way or the other. Unfortunately, as Hon. Mwaura said, once you are covered by the media you are forgotten. You go back to your home with 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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