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    "id": 493708,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Tuya",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Roselinda Soipan Tuya",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me a chance to contribute to this Motion, and particularly in support of it. I wish to say that from my reading of the Motion, the point is really the need for inclusivity in our attempt to push Kenya towards achieving its Vision 2030, and particularly in turning Kenya into an entrepreneurial nation by the year 2030. Having said this, I wish to say that the import of the funds that we seem to be comparing with this proposed Fund; the Women Enterprise Development Fund the Youth Enterprise Development Fund and Uwezo Fund are affirmative-action-oriented funds, which are supposed to take care of groups which have been left out of the mainstream development agenda in Kenya. It cannot be disputed that the youth and women feature very prominently when it comes to groups that need a lot of affirmative support for them to make their contribution to the development of this country. As I, therefore, support this Motion, I wish to say that in as much as the Uwezo Fund, the WEDF and the YEDF are affirmative-action-oriented, it is also wrong to assume that men between the age bracket of 35 to 50 years are all able and are not in need of any affirmative action to also be able to contribute to the development agenda of this country. I wish that we go further to interrogate the objective of this Motion, and say that men in the age bracket of 35 to 50 years need to be given money to work with. I think we must not lose the affirmative action thread; I think that is the essence of creating funds to support specific members of 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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