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    "id": 1192621,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Karachuonyo, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Adipo Okuome",
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    "content": "A country with a high level of unemployment will never be secure, and without security, the country will never develop. The SMEs provide employment to our people. If you go to rural areas, a number of women are engaged in small-scale businesses to earn and fend for their lives. They are yearning to earn and fend for themselves. The problem they face is access to capital. That is what they are trying to achieve. So, if help can go to them, we are sure they are going to maximise whatever they are doing and if they maximise, they will expand their businesses. With the expansion, they will get more people to help them achieve their goals. Many of them will employ more people into their businesses. In doing so, they will reduce unemployment and impact on the food security of the country. We should therefore look at this issue as one that will not only help the business people but one that will also create development through other channels. The same thing goes for the youths. They are doing their best. When they leave schools or universities, they want to do something. We know unemployment level in the country is very high and we know the government cannot absorb them. We are also aware that other businesses cannot absorb them. If they can be assisted to start their own businesses, like women, they will also create employment for others. So, instead of just being idle and doing nothing in their areas, they will be creators of jobs for people to be employed in more numbers. This is a very important Motion because it is going to help us in many ways and I believe my colleagues, together with me, support it heartily. We must work hard to ensure that this can be implemented. Hon. Temporary Speaker, thank you for giving me the chance to contribute to this Motion."
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