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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Cheptumo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "William Cheptumo Kipkiror",
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    "content": "today is the unemployment of young people. I believe in every constituency in this country that is the challenge facing these hon. Members. Having Kshs6 billion available to enable our young people and women access credit will lessen burden on our youth and women. Hon. Speaker, I also want to thank this House for passing these Regulations in November, 2013. Having passed the Regulations, it became necessary for the Senate to look at them, as per the requirements of the law. I just want to add my voice to what the Leader of Majority Party said as he was moving the Motion. The amendments proposed by the Senate are not fundamental. They do not alter the spirit of the Fund. That is the point I would like to stress. As we debate these amendments, or as we consider them, we should have in mind that Senate’s amendments do not take away the original spirit of the Fund. They do not even affect the operations of this Fund at the constituency level; the rules are very clear on the role of Members of Parliament and the committees to be established therein. Therefore, the amendments do not really substantially alter the spirit of the Regulations. Hon. Speaker, the Committee on the Delegated Legislation, which I chair; had a chance to go through these amendments yesterday and this morning. Hon. Speaker, having applied our minds to the contents of the proposed amendments, we came up with a considered opinion that we do proceed with amendments because they do not substantially alter the spirit of the Constitution. That is why you do not see any amendments proposed by the Departmental Committee on Delegated Legislation. Hon. Speaker, let me also mention this: It is this House which approved the application of the Kshs6 billion. This same House should not frustrate its own resolutions by delaying the rolling out of the programme. This money should be applied in this Financial Year, 2013/2014, that is, by June this year. If we do not move with speed and have these regulations passed, we may have a problem of not being able to apply these resources. I have taken time to go through these regulations and I realize that there are many procedural issues to be done. After passing these regulations, the relevant Cabinet Secretary will have to constitute the national oversight board of the Fund. Secondly, these Members will have, again, to go to the constituencies and constitute the Constituency Uwezo Fund Committee; this will take time. We also have to identify the beneficiaries; this will also take time. The board is supposed to develop the regulations and guidelines to enable us operate this Fund. All those go together and they will have the effect of delaying. This House and Parliament have done very well. My desire is this: This is the time we need to balance between regulations and the public mood. What is the expectation of our young people and our mothers? As we go to our constituencies every weekend the first question, second question and the third question is: Where is Uwezo Fund? In fact, even the issue of Senate is not known. The people who are known to be holding the money are the Members of this House. Hon. Speaker, because of those reasons I would like to urge my colleagues and state that if we pass these regulations we will be having at least Kshs19 million in our 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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