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    "id": 235657,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mirugi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Kariuki Mirugi",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you for giving me this opportunity. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to support this Motion and also add that it is very important for this country to support small business owners. Further, in this respect, I am talking about the mama mbogas of this country. In my constituency, for example, there are a lot of women who are engaged in small businesses. It is my belief that someone who is able to eke a living out of less than one dollar a day is able to work for, say, five years and they are able to make profits. I believe that they have earned some knowledge of how to engage in small businesses. It is the obligation of this Government to encourage these small business owners to be the wealth creators of this country. They do not need grants or free money but only facilitation. If they can get soft loans at very reasonable rates of interest, they can be able to engage in business and also expand their small businesses. In that way, they will support others and create jobs for them. That is probably one of the best way we can eradicate poverty in this country. We should support the 3486 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES November 8, 2006 small business owners by facilitating them so that they can be able to be job creators. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the other aspect that I believe is very important, and I would like to thank the Government for the Youth Enterprise Fund, is to also try and reduce the interest rates. Yesterday, for example, I heard the Minister of State for Youth Affairs say that the interest rates will be between 5 per cent and 7 per cent. I want to appeal to the Government to reduce this interest rate so that more people can have access to these soft loans. In future, if we can have a women's fund, we can also be able to merge it with this Youth Enterprise Fund to be the small business enterprise fund for all Kenyans who want to engage in small businesses and expand them. I beg to support this Motion."
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