Isaac Maigua Mwaura

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1011 to 1020 of 1711.

• 16 Nov 2016 in National Assembly: and nothing much has come out of it. view
• 16 Nov 2016 in National Assembly: Another young man called Febrin Asiach has innovated very nice cooking jikos that would save the energies of our mothers, communities and help in deforestation. All these innovations will help the country to move forward. These are not the only young people. They are many and I could mention them. Most of us always go to the Annual Youth Innovation Week when we have time and we see wonderful ideas that if given an opportunity, would transform this society. Most Members will remember their days in high school when they used to attend the Science Congress. They would do wonderful ... view
• 16 Nov 2016 in National Assembly: would want to be close to because politics is the art of communication. This young man, maybe, does not own even an acre of land. Today we communicate a lot on WhatsApp, an innovation that was made by a young man in America who used to go for food rations and soup somewhere. In fact, that is where he signed his contract. This tells us that around us we have young people who have nobel ideas and so we must make Kenya the land of the possible. We have to move away from our traditional economy which emphasizes on land, ... view
• 16 Nov 2016 in National Assembly: Today we are buying a lot of materials from China, which has strategically positioned itself as the factory of the world. It is interesting because some of the things that are produced there could be comfortably produced here. It is very amazing to realise that eggs imported from South Africa cost much less here in Nairobi simply because of the supply chain management inefficiencies within our agri-business regime. These are things that we can address through legislation, resource allocation and other administrative measures that will move the country forward. view
• 16 Nov 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we need to encourage our youth. When I listen to them, they are complaining of the fact that when they come up with innovations they do not have funds to propagate those innovations. We are not talking about colossal amounts of money. We are talking about hundreds of thousands of shillings or a million or two that would help a young person turn his idea into a viable prototype. As you know very well, the challenge of innovation is that we have moved from invention because you just conglomerate a set of ideas to create a ... view
• 16 Nov 2016 in National Assembly: We politicians have learnt one thing. There is too much talk. We now need action and something that we can put our hands. The lack of mentorship is a serious challenge to our young people in relation to advancing their dreams. The other challenge is that the young innovators do not have entrepreneurial training skills and exposure. They do not see themselves as businessmen. More often than not, we have grand ideas but we do not know how to make money out of those ideas. The idea of entrepreneurship and the kind of training that we have is what you ... view
• 16 Nov 2016 in National Assembly: So, we need some re-thinking of our entrepreneurial training. It is not just enough for somebody to regurgitate some yellow notes somewhere just because they are competent and they are speaking a lot of fluent English. We need to ensure that our innovators are given the basics of how to establish startups. The statistics that we have currently show that over 400,000 startups 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. view
• 16 Nov 2016 in National Assembly: die in their first three years of establishment and that is not something that we should celebrate. This happens usually not because of lack of capital but poor investment, diversion of resources and other external factors that would be curtailed if there was proper mentorship and entrepreneurship. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the other challenge that we have is the issue of poor marketing strategies. While this country has been praised for the success in co-operative movement, but that is largely around traditional agricultural production lines. We need to look at forward and backward chain supply management so that young people ... view
• 16 Nov 2016 in National Assembly: As Parliament, we owe it to our young people to ensure that we provide them with an avenue where they can become rich and an avenue where they can be independent. We should provide them with an avenue where they can be self employed and contribute to national development. My Motion seeks to create an innovation fund. One would ask: “Why an innovation fund?” It is because we have so many other funds that are not speaking to the realities of young innovators. Young innovators must be seen as such; as people who have noble ideas, people who are experimenting ... view
• 16 Nov 2016 in National Assembly: we really are as a country. What is it that we are known for? We know that even in the field of athletics, our young people sometimes just end up being poor. They are not even assisted to manage their resources. We also need to ensure that we have technology-driven innovation, so that we have incubation centres. Currently, there are very few incubation centres where young people can meet, discuss about their ideas and explore them. I know about the iHub and the Chandaria Incubation Centre at Kenyatta University, but those are few and far in-between. We need to establish ... view