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    "id": 1102709,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Bumula, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Mwambu Mabongah",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Wekesa Mwambu Mabonga",
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    "content": "picking up, the same fellows who were up there joined the cooperatives to frustrate some of them. It is true we may be doing well but it is true again we have to agree that we have left quite a number of people away. If this policy is followed to the latter, you will realise that it is going to actually solve this problem of employment. Today in the entire world we have millions of people who are in very good jobs because of the cooperative movement. We are talking of even food security in this country but today you go back with this policy and do civic education to the very small people on the ground especially the mama mbogas we discuss every day and the bodabodas. Just be sensitive enough that the culture of saving can save quite a number of them. You will be shocked that at the end of the day, definitely some of those fellows can easily own these big buildings you are talking of in this country. Today we are talking of gender imbalances and some of the things we are struggling with here. If you go just to Rwanda, things that began like table banking and turned into CBOs which most of our people are trying to do at home right now have been formulated back to cooperatives and most of nonworking people in the villages have been accommodated in the cooperatives. You find people are very busy now doing very productive engagement like farming, poultry and all those things which are doing very well in our villages and even getting market outside the country. This is a very important policy document and policy report that the Committee has worked on. If only we can be serious and make sure that it is implemented to the latter, most of the challenges that Kenyans are struggling with today are likely to be captured. I agree with the Leader of the Majority Party that we are not here to outdo each other but we are here to pull our community together so that the nation moves together. We do not go on struggling and punishing some groups of people while promoting the other people but we want to see the nation moving in one direction accommodating everybody because everybody has the idea to move this country forward. I thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I support this Report."
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