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    "id": 417223,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/417223/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ochieng",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2955,
        "legal_name": "David Ouma Ochieng'",
        "slug": "david-ouma-ochieng"
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker. I want to add my voice to thank the Senate for doing a good job. The proposals they have made are quite okay and this Fund is long overdue. The President has talked about it and the youth and women have been nagging us at the constituency level and we hope the implementation can start as soon as these Regulations are passed this afternoon. I have a brief and important issue that I want to raise before this House today. On 23rd August, 2013, there was an advertisement in the local dailies calling for proposals for selections of firms for Uwezo Fund capacity building programme service providers. Those advertisements were done as early as August last year. We had not even contemplated about these Regulations. But the Minister had already contemplated that there will be service providers who will be selected to provide service. From August 2013 to now, I would not be surprised if we already have service providers selected and waiting to receive this money. Hon. Deputy Chairman, I want the Leader of Majority Party to assure this House and warn the Minister concerned that this House will not tolerate the idea of using the Uwezo Fund as a cash cow for some firms that she pre-selected. Hon. Deputy Speaker, if you got that advert, it read as follows:- “This tender will be available for companies owned by the youth.” By the time this tender was advertised, there was no process of accrediting youth companies. It was not there! We just had this process coming around September and November last year, but the advert was done in August. It says the following: “Local firms----“"
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