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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. J.K. Chege",
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        "legal_name": "John Kiragu Chege",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I hope this system will work. I rise to support this Motion because it is very important. As we talk about innovation, first, I want to acknowledge the fact that in Limuru Constituency, we have a pilot project in ICT and an incubation centre. I am shocked to see how young people have adopted them to do innovations. I have seen them come even at night. They are working and outsourcing jobs in the USA and others are doing marketing with basic facilities that we have. My hope is that this country will roll out the 290 projects on ICT incubation centres for all the members to benefit. I recall my days when I was a young person. I had the opportunity to be given a challenge of coming up with an engine to drive a locomotive car in this country. I remember some of the people I worked with who really contributed a lot. Some were basic artisans and technicians. I remember the likes of Omondi, Otieno and Waweru. When I say this, I see my former colleague Hon. John, Member of Parliament for Uriri, who would recall our days in Railway Central Workshops. However, the challenge we have in this country is that yes, we have people who can innovate and who can come up with ideas, but we do not seem to have a way of supporting the development of those ideas. When we developed our engine in those days, Mahindra were doing the same in India. However, Kenyans would support Mahindra and not their own ideas. I know many people who have come up with ideas, but Kenyans tend to kill them. I remember the sugar industry which had problems. They did not even have knives to cut sugarcane. We came up with an idea of using scrap metal to make sugarcane knives for the sugar industry instead of importing them. What is shocking is that somehow all the scrap materials that we were using for making the cane knives were sold and exported. We came up with the idea of developing sugar rollers for crushing cane and the method of shrinking the shaft. This is an item that is over 10 tonnes. Today, Nzoia, Chemelil and Mumias are importing them. It is my hope that we become serious as a country, that if we want to create employment then we need to deal with solutions for our people. We need to make hard decisions. Some of the hard decisions we have to make in this country are to what extent we can adopt a local content or the things that come from outside this country. Whether it is a product or their services, as Kenyans we must make contribution. 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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