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    "id": 406870,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kagwe",
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        "legal_name": "Mutahi Kagwe",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity. I want to say from the outset that I support the Uwezo Fund, but like my colleagues, I see a lot of areas of concern that need to be addressed. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, things fail because of management and they work because of management. What I cannot see in these regulations is the proper establishment or what one might consider as the properly thought out management scheme for the Uwezo Fund. When you look at the element of oversight and supervision that is there, you can see in the regulations and in the Act exactly how the money is going to be disbursed; you can see the Board, you can see the Committee and you can see the secretariat. What we cannot see in the Fund is how exactly do you monitor the use of this Fund so that, for instance, you will get a monthly report to say “this is what has transpired; in this month, these are the activities that we undertook; we took another Kshs5,000 and this is what we did with it.” In other words, the management and supervision of the Fund is what I feel concerned about. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, they say that six months is the grace period and the loan must be repaid within two years. Any businessman will tell you that it is simply not possible to set up a business and get it to work within two years. It is not going to happen! Therefore, there is no point of making a rule which you know very well in the initial stages is inoperative, and then you demand that these people pay; and you say they have failed because they did not pay after two years, when it was very clear that it was a set up to fail in the first place."
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