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    "id": 1142718,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Getrude Musuruve Inimah",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to support this very important Bill; the Community Groups Registration Bill (National Assembly Bills No. 20 of 2021) It is very clear that community groups have existed since time immemorial. I know, that especially women are very good at coming up with groups. They come in different forms; in terms of, merry-go-round where, for example, they meet every month and bring in some money. Some of these groups start small. In some groups, they actually come together, collect money every month and give to one woman to develop her home. Sometimes they even come up with money, buy utensils, give one person and so on. Some groups have come up with merry-go-rounds, for example, they buy a cow for everyone in the group. They even raise money and have bought plots, even an eighth for each and every person in that group. They have existed to improve the socio-economic empowerment of the people in the groups, especially the women. It is only that these groups have not been enshrined in the law or been given recognition. This Bill comes in to give these merry-go-rounds, women and men’s groups that legal sanctioning that now they will be enshrined in law and given status. Recognition of these groups is very important. We have seen people joining cooperatives so that after saving some money, they can take a loan for self-development. Development can be individual, family or societal. This Bill being made into law will be development for the people in that group, each of them individually. Some of these groups can come up with a proposal that they want to start a business for each member. Sometimes the members can choose the project they want. Members can look at their strengths and decide. There are some members who can decide in such groups that they want to be funded to rear chicken, pigs, goats and all that. It comes out as individual, but at the end of the day, the individual benefits and the benefit spills over even to the families. This Bill then addresses Article 43 of our Constitution on the socio-economic cries because it empowers the members of the groups. It is a very good Bill because it gets us a way even from the handouts that sometimes people are given. If you are supported to even keep fish, bees and sell honey or grow groundnuts and even make peanut butter, in such a group, then it empowers you. If you are a woman or a man with dependants, you will be able to bring something on the table. This is a very neat Bill that is really timely. The issue of director of the groups also comes in to ensure that the groups are organized, so that things are not done in a haphazard manner. It should be in a structured way that is easily viable."
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