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    "id": 1202141,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Embakasi North, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon James Gakuya Mwangi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. First and foremost, I want to congratulate you for having being elected as the Speaker of the National Assembly. Let me also take this opportunity to thank my electorate who have elected me for the third term without tiring. It is an honour and for sure it is not easy in this City to be elected three times consecutively. As a Nairobian, this City has many issues that can be tackled with the measures the Head of State highlighted during his Address to the public. I would like to take note of hustlers. This city is the hub of hustlers. We have very serious effects of COVID-19, which made most of our Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) bankrupt. I think an urgent measure has to be taken to ensure SMEs are back on track with their businesses. I also want to state that I support the Hustlers Fund. I am very much aware that will go a long way to boost our SMEs because in Nairobi, we depend on our pockets. We do not grow anything here. We are not farmers; we just rely on our pockets. Therefore, we require such a support so that hustlers can put food on their table. I would also want to thank the Head of State for taking a lot of concern about the banking sector. You will realise that our people have become bankrupt. Most of them are listed on Credit Reference Bureau (CRB). Therefore, they cannot access lending from the various banks. It is a very good step that the Head of State has taken to make sure that the hustlers can be lifted from where they have been hanged by the CRB. This is a very serious matter that will give our SMEs and hustlers an opportunity to access funding from various financial institutions. We also have acute shortage of housing. The housing sector is in serious problems. Most Nairobians settle in the informal sector. It is high time we made inroads to make sure that informal sectors are converted to formal sectors. The housing agenda is a very serious one, especially to the hustlers of this City who are in the informal sector. I would like to congratulate the Head of State for coming up with a strategy on how both the formal and informal sectors can be incorporated into the housing programme."
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