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    "id": 749391,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Gikaria",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "David Gikaria",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to air my views and support the President‟s Award Bill. It is important for us to note that, in the past, those awards have not been favouring the youth. It is high time we started thinking about the youth who are very industrious, innovative and deserve to be awarded. Going by what we have seen in the recent past, the youth need to be encouraged and given an opportunity to showcase their innovations and be appreciated. We cannot forget the M-Pesa phenomenon which has been making huge profits for big corporations but, unfortunately, the young Kenyan who innovated it has not benefited from it. It is unfortunate that another person was given the patent rights. Yesterday, I was watching a football match between Tottenham Hotspurs and Manchester United in England. It was good to see the skills of one of our young people in this country who moved to the United Kingdom, who is doing very well. This is an encouragement to the young people, particularly Victor Wanyama, who opened the scoring for Tottenham Hotspurs yesterday. It is important for us to realize that every other young football talent in this country want to reach the heights of Wanyama. Wanyama being awarded will show those tiny little academies in the villages that they will also benefit from such talents in future. It is important. It is not only Wanyama. We have so many other brilliant young musicians and artists who are coming up. Clause 2 defines the President‟s Award as a self development programme designed for young persons. It is important for us to award various activities undertaken by young people. This is a very old award programme which was started way back in the 1960s by our founding fathers. We appreciate that it is not only about young people, but any other person who stands out. There was this young Somali-Kenyan in North Eastern who came out boldly and told terrorists that they cannot separate Kenyans based on faith or religious issues. The young man stood up and protected some lives which was very encouraging. I know he was awarded by the President last year. We need many others of the same quality to come out and be awarded. Those young people voluntarily undertake self-development activities. 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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