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    "speaker_name": "Kiharu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ndindi Nyoro",
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        "legal_name": "Samson Ndindi Nyoro",
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    "content": "to any other position. This cuts across. It is not just in Kenya. We have the best brains in Africa, Kenya being included, doing the same. I believe that we are among the top cream, in terms of the brainpower in this country, of the kind of Legislatures we are talking about. It is a very clear sequence in Kenya and any other African State and actually all developing countries and economies. We have a sequence where the best brains and talents choose to leave their professions like being a doctor and being an entrepreneur to join politics. I can dare say, comparative to countries like the US and the UK where you can hardly find a young person, for example, in the Senate in the US, you can hardly find a young person in both Houses in the UK. It is basically because there are so many other alternatives for young people in those countries. Anyone looking to make money in the US or serve their nation in a great scale, in other such developed economies, has many alternatives. First, it is for personal growth and also to serve. Giving just an example, a young person in the US has an alternative to go to Wall Street. The other alternative is of going to the Silicon Valley, making more money there and consequently, based on what they choose to do, impacting their countries and economies in a better way. For example, if Mark Zuckerberg the founder of Facebook was Kenyan, if somebody like Kalanick who is the founder of Uber was a Kenyan, there is a great probability that those two gentlemen would be here in Parliament choosing to be politicians other than serving their countries through their ingenuity and imagination as they have been able to do, both of them, in the Silicon Valley, where they are now serving greater multitudes through their imagination and products other than any politician would wish and manage to do. Therefore, this is a call for all of us that we have to continue making the right policies so that we can have many alternatives for the young people of this country to serve our country and also advance their personal agenda other than just relying on politics, especially politics of patronage. This issue of pension, I am happy that we just passed the other Bill about pensions the other day, is a gem that we can use as a country. A country like Singapore has the highest percentage of housing ownership in the world. Over 90 per cent of Singaporeans own houses. What happened was just a policy issue. This money that we keep to use during a rainy day, especially when we are not working, can be used and expended as security for, one, people to own houses and two, so that facet can be opened up. That is instead of saving money in terms of cash in the bank accounts where I can get the exact amount I am saving. This money can be used to help those people who are saving for future use to own houses and, of course, make their lives better when that time comes."
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