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    "id": 1144295,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kwanza, FORD-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ferdinand Wanyonyi",
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        "legal_name": "Ferdinard Kevin Wanyonyi",
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    "content": "One, what happened in the other committees is very interesting. When you ask a relevant question, some of the Members of the Executive cannot answer. When the Chairman of the Committee was moving the Motion, he said that when they asked the cabinet secretaries questions, they ignored them because they did not have answers. I agree with what you have done. First of all, the Uwezo Fund, the Youth Enterprise Development Fund and the Women Enterprise Fund are overseen by Members of Parliament. We know where we are. We know how these people work. For you to come from nowhere and say that we collapse the Funds to form the Biashara Fund and, again, put conditions that the youth cannot meet, is not acceptable. That is why they have problems. All that you need to access the Uwezo Fund is a certificate of a youth group whose members have come together with a common agenda and then they pay back without any problem. That is the same thing with the Women Enterprise Fund and the Youth Enterprise Development Fund. Therefore, I agree with the Committee. I think this nullification is quite good. Tell me why those in the Executive are doing this. I can tell you that it is because they know that Members of Parliament are involved. They do not want Members of Parliament to be involved. There is no reason. By the way, I am told there was no public participation. How do you nullify these Funds and collapse them into whatever enterprise? If you do that, I am sure the conditions will be so difficult for women and the youth to benefit. For example, if you want to do even a simple project of making bricks, they will need you to have a title deed for the same. There are no title deeds. Therefore, I agree with the Committee. I think you did something good. Do not even go ahead. Do not take it seriously because the people who appeared before you do not know what is happening out there. They sit in Nairobi 100 per cent of the time. They do not know what they are doing."
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