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    "content": "Our President did a great job in his inaugural Speech to this House where he addressed issues such as his vision for the youth and the women fund. As I anticipate the Bill that will be coming here on revenue allocation specifically and the vote items, I am very concerned that the Kshs6 billion that was not used in the re-run of the elections and promised to our mothers, women, brothers and sisters has not been allocated. It is not clear. So we want to know why those empty promises were given. We want to send a message clearly to the Government and the leaders of the Majority Party representing the Government in this House that we will not sit back and watch you shortchange our women. We will not sit back and let the youth be shortchanged. He talked a lot about skills and development for our young people. But our young people need capital. They have skills and while we can invest in more skills to Ministries such as education; and while we have seen a trend that is very dangerous amongst past governments to take away village polytechnics and colleges and turn them into universities and other things, we must go back to a system where we are investing in a place for our youth to get skills. But I will remind and emphasize for the record that our women and our young people need capital and access to capital so desperately like yesterday, so that they can start doing something for themselves. So once again, the promises and ideals presented in the Presidential Speech - of about Kshs7 billion for immediate infusion of cash to be managed through the constituencies with the leadership of the able Members of this House will provide immediate and starting relief to our people and start making a change in the lives of our people because our Parliament here is only four years long and we do not have time to wait another year before we have a crack at this."
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