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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Poghisio",
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Losuron Poghisio",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I just wanted to give some information on it; I am not dwelling on it. It is best suited for Kacheliba Constituency and similar places, but I cannot afford it. However, the other thing that has come up is the issue of the media focusing on sleeping hon. Members. I would like to suggest that in future, functions like the State Opening should be changed, so that we have it in the morning when hon. Members are still very strong and fresh. Maybe we should have it on Wednesday mornings or any on other morning, so that we do not have the sleeping problems. On the issue of the proposed Women Enterprise Development Fund, which is a special fund for women, makes a lot of sense in some parts of Kenya. But in certain parts of Kenya like where I come from, there will be no need to separate a women's fund from a men's fund, because there will be no fund at all for either women or the men. The men have no access to any fund. The men in ASAL areas have no access to any funds; so, there is no point in making the proposed Fund specific to women. I think the law coming in should allow for men in certain areas of this country to be included in the Women's Fund. This is because if there is any special access to this fund by women, the men in those areas would also like to have it. I am saying this because many people think that only women lack access to funds. But in ASAL areas, it is everybody, the men, the youth, the women and so on. The reason is that we live in areas that are designated as Trust Lands. In those areas, there are no individual title deeds, and, therefore, you have no access to any loans. You cannot actually borrow money on the security of your land. So, when you design a Fund like this one, while in other places we will have women's Fund, I think there should be another Fund by the Government, as a way of fast-tracking development in ASAL areas, that targets the men as well. Such a Fund should not have the conditionalities that exist for credit in the other parts of the country. This is what we mean by affirmative action. It is giving the people the opportunities that they do not have, but that other parts of Kenya have. Even for the Youth Enterprise Development Fund, people from those ASAL areas will tell you that there is no way of securing loans. As we go to the home stretch in this matter, I want to ask the Government to provide TV signals to all parts of the country. My constituency has no TV signals. There is no newspaper that reaches it either. With those remarks, I beg to support."
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