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    "speaker_name": "Nakuru Town East, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Gikaria",
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    "content": "The principal objective of the Bill is to amend the National Construction Authority Act (No.41 of 2011) to ensure women, youth and persons living with disability can have start-up businesses and can apply to be registered as contractors under categories 6, 7 and 8 while being exempted from paying the levy fee that is requested. Some of the benefits of this Bill are that it will enable groups to access business opportunities through the Access to Government Procurement Opportunities (AGPO). It will lock out the very rich people and briefcase contractors who always walk around getting contracts and locking out workers. What they do is that a person like me who has the capacity to register a company uses my wife’s name and then calls it a women’s company. Then, I register another one under my children and it goes to the youth. These briefcase contractors look for disabled persons within their locality, if they do not have one, register another company using the name of a disabled person so that they can continue minting money. Hon. Temporary Speaker, we bring this to allow start-ups. It is specifically for start-ups only. It is not meant for big contractors. It is only for start-ups that are exempted once they start their company. One must have these three very important certificates to qualify to participate in a tendering process. One is a civil certificate and the other is from the NCA. Before you get to technical and financial aspects, these are the three certificates that one must have to move to the next step. I plead with my colleagues to support me in approving and passing this Bill so that the ordinary Kenyan from the Landi Panya Estate, that I come from, will have a registered company and participate effectively by starting to earn and making economic gains. Secondly, this will lead to a busy life. We have just heard from the Cabinet Secretary of Health that our children abuse drugs and engage in crime. Hon. Speaker, I want to attest that just the other day, through my effort, I started over 50 companies for young people, women and people with disabilities in my constituency to enable them to participate in this. As it is now, none of them have ever got a job for the last seven years since we started the incorporation because of some of those impending issues. This will ensure that our children and women are busy. They will avoid drug abuse and crime. Thirdly, we are going to empower the young people. My constituency's crime rate has decreased through some empowerment efforts and engagement with other partners. I can tell you the crime rate in Nakuru has reduced by a significant percentage for the period they were occupied. I also want to confess that during the Kazi Mtaani period, crime in Kibera and other places was significantly reduced because our young people had already been engaged. Equally, it will reduce reliance on Government programs for cash transfers and food relief. 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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