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    "id": 417010,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/417010/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo",
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, I thank you for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this Motion. As I do so, I want to agree with the sentiments expressed by colleagues who spoke before me. Both the Senate and the National Assembly derive their legislative authority from the people of Kenya. It is important that when it comes to the interest of our people, we rise above petty partisan considerations and unnecessary supremacy wars. I think that the amendments that have been proposed by the Senate, in my view, do not materially or structurally alter the purpose of this Fund. It will be in our interest that the people of Kenya start to get the benefits of this Fund. Hon. Speaker, you will recall that at Independence this nation had a focus. The focus was simple and straightforward. We had very noble, simple, achievable and realizable goals which were to fight poverty, ignorance and disease. These goals have been elusive for our country for a number of reasons which I do not want to get into now. However, I think that this effort by Uwezo Fund is aimed at tackling the problems of poverty in the rural areas. I think it is a good and noble imitative which we need to rally behind and support so that our people can get the benefits of the Fund. It is a known fact both in Kenya and outside this country that when you put money in the hands of women and youth and it is utilized in the manner suggested in the Uwezo Fund, we are going to achieve rapid development in the rural areas in the countryside. It is a good thing and I urge my colleagues that we support and pass these amendments that had been proposed so that our people can start to benefit from this Fund."
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