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    "id": 235971,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is obvious that the hon. Member for Kisumu Town East was neither attentive nor listening. I did not say the young man I represented started a business from proceeds of robbery. I said he borrowed a little money from a microfinance institution. He then started a newspaper vending business and now he owns matatus . He is now a rich man and these are some of the things we are talking about. This is how we want to empower people. I went to a country in Asia where a microfinance institution just supports women by helping them to buy two hens and one cockerel. There is a co-operative in the neighbourhood and they are encouraged that if they breed them well, and these are domestic local poultry that just roam around to eat grasshoppers, grass and such things; they will be rewarded. They are advised that every month, if they are able to sell four to five cockerels produced from those three chickens they have, they are able to raise an equivalent of about Kshs1,000. That is enough to buy the family salt, sugar, soap and other requirements to lead a reasonable life. This is what microfinance can do and sometimes they may even raise enough money to pay school fees for their children. This is what we are trying to do. Some of the fishermen that my friend represents need only Kshs5,000 to buy a second-hand net and dip it in the lake the whole night, and come out with fish in the morning and improve their lives. This is what this Bill is about to do."
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