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    "id": 416708,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Bowen",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "David Kangongo Bowen",
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    "content": "Another issue is about Uwezo Fund. We know that procuring entities look at the youth as though they do not have the capacity. Now that we have passed Uwezo Fund, it must assist the youth to enable them have a small amount of money to get the work and tenders. I came in when hon. Mbadi was talking about interest rates, which is also another issue that will prevent our youths from getting these soft loans. We are saying that if Uwezo funds are utilized well – and I want to thank the Jubilee Government for introducing the Uwezo Fund – in the small tenders in our counties, we are going to build our youth. They are not going to be idle because most of them have graduated with good certificates and professions but they do not have jobs. Some of them have resorted to criminal acts like cattle rustling and other evil things, but if we pass this Bill and give them 30 per cent of procurement business in all sectors, both at the national and county levels, they are going to be good people as they wait for the Government to rescind its decision not employ in the Civil Service. They will have something to engage in. Therefore, I want to encourage the youth across the country to register with the Government. You will find that most of them are longing to get the Uwezo funds and other Government funds yet they have not been registered. I also want to ask the Ministry in charge of social services---- Where I come from, for the last three or four months, most of the women and the youth who have gone through registration are turned away because they say documents are not there. They are still waiting for them from Nairobi. So, I want The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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