Moses Masika Wetangula

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• 27 Jul 2021 in Senate: The state has a way of frustrating people, sometimes based on very parochial thinking. You put an agency somewhere and you put there some wicked character who thinks that innovation must only come from his community. We have had such fellows. When someone sits in an innovation agency and they come from the Mulembe nation, for instance, he starts parochially thinking that anybody who comes from another part of the country cannot be innovative. Instead of facilitating innovation, they kill it because of parochial thinking. I would like Sen. Sakaja to recast Clauses 6 and 7 so that anybody who ... view
• 27 Jul 2021 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, equally important is the need to have innovation support facilities in the counties. I would like us to revisit the philosophy of devolution. Sen. Murkomen was right in the center of enabling facilities for devolution at its start. The philosophy of devolution was not for us to endlessly haggle at the center to take money to the counties. It was to enable the counties grow to the level where some counties will not need any money from Nairobi. view
• 27 Jul 2021 in Senate: If you go to countries like Australia and the United States of America (USA), a territory like Western Australia is much richer than probably the rest put together because of their mining capacity. They therefore do not need any money from Canberra. California alone, which is in the USA, is the 14th largest economy in the world. You do not expect California to expect money from Washington. It probably gives money to Washington. view
• 27 Jul 2021 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would like to see a national innovation competition included in this Bill so that we bring counties together. Is Isiolo the most innovative county? If it is, what benefits do we accord them to continue leading in innovation? Those that are not innovative enough will watch as others benefit from state resources that support innovation. view
• 27 Jul 2021 in Senate: Competition breeds the best. We should allow competition in a positive manner, not the destructive competition that we see in the political arena in this country. We want positive competition that makes a child born in Mathare or Kibra slums of Nairobi as accessible to facilities that will make them compete with those that are in better neighbourhoods. This will help. view
• 27 Jul 2021 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would also like to see that we obligate the National Treasury--- Sen. Sakaja may think of creating an innovation fund that is a percentage of our Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Unless you take such deliberate actions, innovation, incubation and support for young brains becomes an option. The people are so used to doing things view
• 27 Jul 2021 in Senate: The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 27 Jul 2021 in Senate: the same way expecting different results all the time. They will never get those different results. We therefore need to put a fund together that can be accessed to anybody with the ability and drive to bring out innovations. There is no reason for Kenya to import tractors from countries that are at the same level or lower than us. We are now importing tractors from Pakistan, Iran and India. These are countries that we should be competing with at the level of innovation. Mr. Speaker, Sir, you will remember that there was a car that was started by our ... view
• 27 Jul 2021 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, absolutely. When we came into the Government in 2002, we promised free universal education and we delivered. view
• 27 Jul 2021 in Senate: These Jubilee characters came to Government--- view