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    "id": 493718,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Njomo",
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        "legal_name": "Jude L. Kangethe Njomo",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker. I would like to commend and congratulate hon. Njuguna for bringing this very important Motion to the Floor of this House. I am now beginning to understand why the people of Gatanga call this honourable gentleman “ roho safi ”. He wants everybody to have a roho safi and he has seen that the Government has created several funds, including the Youth Enterprise Development Fund which takes care of our young people. It has created the Uwezo Fund which is taking care of our women and young people. There is a gap that has been left, where our middle aged gentlemen have nobody to take care of them. We know that there are loans available, like the hon. Member who was opposing has said. But not every middle aged man has the capacity or the security required to access those commercial loans. That is why we need to help them to start up their businesses and acquire securities so that they can face the banks and get funds to operate their businesses. God appointed the man to be the head of the family and from the funds that have been availed, the young people and women will be financially better off than the man. Thus, a man will not be a good head of the family because women and the youth will be in a better financial position than the man. He will not feel secure in his own home. It has been said before that, in the past so much effort was put on the girl-child that we forgot about our boy-child. We have seen efforts being put to correct the situation where now the boy-child feels neglected and does not feel like he is taken care of. We should not let the same happen to our middle aged men when we put so much effort on our youth and women to the detriment of the man. The National Industrial Training Authority (NITA) should also be strengthened so that, apart from providing training to our young people, it should be empowered to give out loans to entrepreneurs after providing training to them. This country is moving forward and there is a lot of development going on. But our people are not able to get the contracts that are offered by our Government because our technocrats are crafting tenders particularly aimed for foreign companies."
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