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    "id": 861730,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/861730/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kiharu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ndindi Nyoro",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13370,
        "legal_name": "Samson Ndindi Nyoro",
        "slug": "samson-ndindi-nyoro"
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    "content": "This was a very noble idea. Currently we should be promoting innovation and anything around ICT. As we talk about jobs here in Kenya, especially blue-collar jobs, the world has already moved on and many jurisdictions are talking about basic universal income for their citizens basically because of the job disruptions that are caused by artificial intelligence, robotics and such novelties. Therefore, anything that is geared towards promoting innovation and ICT should be supported. We also have several merging programmes, for example, through the NG- CDF we have one for electricity through Rural Electrification Authority (REA). The coming up together of the Ministry and the NG-CDF was not a far-fetched idea. It is the right thing. However, what was alarming was the cost, especially the contribution from the NG-CDF compared to that of the Ministry for ICT. Generally speaking, if you contribute Kshs5million for buying equipment and stocking the hubs…The NG-CDF committees in our respective constituencies, I believe, can do much more than what the Ministry was doing with regard to buying gadgets, equipment and stocking the ICT hubs."
}