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    "id": 472227,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/472227/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kajwang",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 164,
        "legal_name": "Gerald Otieno Kajwang",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. In that case, I have some time. If we were to say that any business that goes up to Kshs500,000 where you do not have to go to public tender, you give to the youth, women and persons with disability. That would be the best beginning point and then we progress that way. I have realized that some Government entities do a lot of tendering under Kshs500,000 without going to public tender. That is where the money is if you multiply so many of those little things that are supplied from exercise books, envelopes, papers, cartridges and so on. When I was a Minister, I noticed that the budget for envelopes in the Ministry was about Kshs104 million every year. So, there is a lot of business that can be done with the amount of Kshs500,000 without going to the public tender. We could earmark this for the young people and women, but we should back it with some money. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I know that the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) has supported some young people, especially fundis . We have to go round it. When we went for public tenders, good fundis who had no money could not do the tenders. So, we had to give tenders to people who are not fundis to come and hire them. Then we realized that it is a waste of money because it is even more expensive. I hope that we will leverage this against some money so that young people who do not have money, but have the skills and can deliver get access to this. Otherwise, we will be making very sharp businessmen to be brokers in the process killing very good progressive arrangement for our young people. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, with those many remarks, I beg to support"
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