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    "id": 493748,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/493748/?format=api",
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Injendi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2214,
        "legal_name": "Moses Malulu Injendi",
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    "content": "I support this Motion because I have seen that, with the creation of Uwezo Fund, Youth Enterprise Development Fund and other funds, discrimination has been happening in families. That has created a lot of divisions. Arguments have been raised: Why is it that in the same country, we are recognizing youth and women and not men? In most cases, most of those families have been getting into arguments that create conflicts. So, when you create a fund for that particular group, it will create some harmony. Hon. Deputy Speaker, the other factor why I am supporting this Motion is because, as one Member has pointed out here, men will become unproductive. That is not going to be the factor. But the danger is: If most of those men will find themselves not having anything to engage in because they have no money, then most of them will be idle. So, you will find that most of the gains that we will have gotten from the Uwezo Fund and et cetera will be eroded by that dependent group or persons. They will be eating away the profits from those particular funds and, actually, causing poverty to continue afflicting our communities. The other thing that I have noted in our families because of that is family breakups. What has been happening is like something I saw in my constituency. When those women get the money, men have been insisting that, as heads of the households, they get a share of that money. The kind of money that we are giving to the women is not so much to be given to the men who are idling around in the families. Since women are now insisting that they want that money to be put into businesses, it is causing conflicts and fights leading to home break-ups. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I also believe that when we have a fund in general, we will find the whole community being engaged somehow in the development of this country. That is because we know that persons aged 35 to 55 years are more active. But in this country, as it is, that group is mostly unemployed. We have been seeing them in our streets. Many people who have been making a lot of noise and causing mayhem in the community are those particular persons. Therefore, if we have a fund for them in our country, then we will have gotten something that will engage them in development and in this case, we will move the country forward. So, with those remarks, I support this Motion. I want to assure the country that, for sure, if we get into this, we will be living up to the Jubilee Government’s pledge of moving this country to another level. As was mentioned earlier, we are becoming a middle income country. If we do not do that, the talk of our country being a middle income country will just be hearsay. That is because the population will be unemployed as we see in most of our constituencies. So, I support."
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