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    "id": 417013,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Nyasuna",
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        "legal_name": "Gladys Atieno Nyasuna",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, I want to support this Motion. The youth and women of this county have been waiting for a long time for the Uwezo Fund. This Fund was actually launched last year and people have just been sitting, waiting and asking, “When will money from this Fund get to us?” It is about time that this Fund got to the women and youth of this country because they continue to hurt as they access very expensive credit. A lot of them have been burdened by the yoke of this expensive credit and they end up being auctioned very unnecessarily. This Fund will come in handy to sort that out. Hon. Speaker, it is needless to say that the Financial Year 2013/2014 is about to come to an end. Therefore, if we do not release these funds as soon as they should--- We would hate to be the barrier between this money and the youth and women of this country that are waiting for it. If today we were to amend these regulations, I would have suggested the inclusion of the Women Enterprise Development Fund (WEDF) and the Youth Enterprise Development Fund (YEDF) into this Committee so that we are able to really harmonize and synchronize so that we do not have groups which have benefited and are, maybe, defaulting with regard to the WEDF and the YEDF and then coming over to get money from the Uwezo Fund. We are not amending the law today and we know the consequences of amendments, what I would recommend really is that as these committees are formed they need to work closely with the WEDF and YEDF officers. One of the amendments I have seen is that the two persons, one of whom should be a male youth in the Uwezo Oversight Board--- This was to be done by the National Youth Council, but now the two persons will be appointed by the Cabinet Secretary. I would like to say that the Cabinet Secretary in appointing since the regulations now do not specify that these people must be youth, should ensure in the spirit of the regulations that this person is actually a youth, rather than just leaving it open."
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