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    "id": 1144236,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1144236/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mbeere North, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon Charles Njagagua",
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        "legal_name": "Charles Muriuki Njagagua",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon Speaker. I would not have put it any better than what my Chairman has said. The gist of this Motion is the Biashara Fund that the Government wanted to create to amalgamate the Uwezo Fund, the Women Enterprise Fund and the Youth Enterprise Fund. You will appreciate that these are Funds that are meant to cater for the ordinary mwananchi in the village. The Uwezo Fund is overseen by the Members of Parliament, but the Executive in its wisdom or lack of it, desired to collapse these three Funds into one known as the Biashara Fund. The reasoning for this amalgamation was that they wanted to cut down on cost given that these three Funds simultaneously lend in different offices, have different staff and therefore incur a lot of expenses and cost for purposes of running them. The CS in charge of these Funds, Ukur Yatani from the National Treasury; and Prof. Margaret Kobia from Public Service, Youth and Gender Affairs appeared before us with their respective Permanent Secretaries. They outrightly ignored questions by Members. They evaded responding to our questions and, in some instances, they would take down the notes saying that they would come back to us with substantive answers. As of the date we met to annul these Regulations, they had not given us the answers."
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