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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kobado",
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        "legal_name": "John Owuor Onyango Kobado",
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    "content": "In my constituency, I set aside quite a bit of money to set up a talent centre for the talented and gifted students and it has picked up. Sooner than later, we will be talking of exporting manpower to other constituencies and counties in this country. They better listen to this and you will, perhaps, be able to borrow from me. There is need to look at innovation as a value adding activity so that, as we look at the process of production, whether you are in the service sector or manufacturing sector, you can convert the inputs to produce an output that would be sold and be in the market competing with others. There is need to look at the processes. If you look at the processes critically, you will be able to deal with the problems that are facing this country. Today, what we have specialised in is corruption, particularly in the Jubilee Government. They are very innovative when it comes to corruption. It is because, if you look at the input, if you were to determine a system or Government that is efficient, you would look at what resources it has put in to deliver a certain output to citizens. Take the health sector for instance, we are pumping in Kshs5 billion. We do not know what happens in between. The service that goes out is nil. It is zero. This is lack of innovation. If we brought in technology, use of appropriate technology, we would capture some of the challenges that we are facing. Wastage of resources is another issue that would be tackled by innovation. There is a lot of wastage in this country. There is a lot of wastage in terms of even what we produce. We visited a number of sugar factories the other day and found that the by-products are just dumped and wasted. Those by-products could be converted into other products through the process of diversification. I want to also make it known about the other areas that we need to look at. How do we put in place those processes of innovation? How do we transfer skills? Funds have been set up in this country. If you gauge what those Funds have done, I do not think they have really added value. Look at the Uwezo Fund, the focus should not be on capital alone. We should not think that once the money is made available to the youth, that will change their way of living. They 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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