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    "id": 1156641,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tharaka, DP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. George Gitonga",
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        "legal_name": "George Gitonga Murugara",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for allowing me to support this timely Bill brought by Hon. Gikaria. Allow me to also say a few words about him towards the end of my speech. I never miss something to say about the Temporary Deputy Speaker from time to time. The Bill is timely in that we must continuously look at the vulnerable groups in our society and do all it takes to ensure that we protect them unreservedly. As we develop our country, we must also focus on vulnerable groups. They are ladies, youth and persons living with disabilities. The Act provides for payment of fees or charges when applying for licenses and certificates or even registration. When we were enacting this law, we were oblivious of the fact that vulnerable groups - groups that require affirmative action - needed to be considered. That has been going on for a long time in this country. It is not the best of practice. I am happy to note that political parties, especially my UDA Party, have considered these groups in their nominations. The NCA must move with speed to ensure that we protect the vulnerable groups by, first and foremost, exempting them from paying any registration fee as they fall within the lowest cadre group that comprises of hustlers. These are the people we find at the bottom layer of our society - the people we must always strive to take up the socio-economic ladder of our society through the bottom-up economic model. We started with bottom-up narrative, but we were told, “No.” So, we now refer to them as vulnerable, sufferers and by other names. However, all this boils down to one thing that the affirmative action groups include women, youth and persons living with disabilities. When it comes to registering these people, we must take time to train them, especially now that we have technical and vocational training institutes in almost all the constituencies of Kenya. We have favourably talked about the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF), which constitutes only an iota of the funds we have in this country, but whose effect and visibility is all over the country. Let us extend the use of these funds to training of women, youth and persons with disabilities in our technical and vocational training institutes so that they can also qualify for registration by the NCA. When we train women, youth and persons with disabilities, we improve their lives and the lives of those who depend on them as we do so for everyone else. Let us not always train our eyes on people who are at the top of the socio- economic ladder, those who have made it in life, those who claim to be well educated, and those who claim to be rich. Every Kenyan must have an equal opportunity to improve their lives. Let us spend our resources to benefit every Kenyan irrespective of one’s economic. We are all important. That is why this morning we are discussing the vulnerable members of our society. We must also The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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