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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Chanzu",
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        "legal_name": "Yusuf Kifuma Chanzu",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I also wish to join my colleagues to wish my colleagues here a prosperous new year and welcome them back. This is a very important Bill. I would say that it has been long overdue. There have been quite a number of attempts by successive Governments, but whatever was done was not properly organized, co-ordinated and documented. However, I think the new Constitution has helped us a great deal by being specific on a number of issues, for example, the issue of the youth and gender and so on. When I look at the issue of the youth, I think there are a number of factors that have contributed to what seems to be going on. They seem to lack opportunities. The JuaKali sector would have gone very far if we had proper legislation and mechanisms in place. I think it was done in a haphazard way. We still have places like Gikomba where you will find some boxes, but there is no standardization. The effort now, by the leader of the TNA Party to bring up this Bill will go a long way in assisting to put everything in harmony so that there is a way it can be done. There was Jua Kali and later on the Kibaki administration came up with the Youth Enterprise Development Fund. These are some of the things that came up because of the campaign pledges and sometimes they were not properly planned. So, when you found some Kshs50,000 given to a group--- One had to form a group of about ten or 12 youth so that they could get the Kshs50,000. To bring together a group of about ten to 12 young people so that they can get Kshs50,000 is difficult. It is difficult for even two people to work together. I find Kshs50,000 to be ridiculous! Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, later on the requirement changed so that once they had paid satisfactorily, then one youth could get Kshs50,000. This still could not work. Therefore, I believe that once we put legislation in place like this one, it will be able to assist. The only thing we need to address is facilitation because accessing funds in this country is a big problem. We talk about a huge amount of money in banks but how to access this money is a problem. Even if you look at the banks today, there are some which are helping some of the students who have passed examinations to go to secondary school. You see that money on paper, but to access it is problem."
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