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    "id": 5950,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/5950/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Kamar",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Higher Education, Science and Technology",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 33,
        "legal_name": "Margaret Jepkoech Kamar",
        "slug": "margaret-kamar"
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    "content": " Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. I think these Members are bent on distracting me. I would like to support this Motion, because the issue of partnership has created a lot of acrimony among Kenyans. We have heard enmity arising out of how partnerships are formed. Sometimes people are taken advantage of. People have entered into partnerships only to discover that their liabilities have been generated without them knowing. I have seen cases personally, where members of a partnership are employees of the same partnership and there has not been a very clear way of trying to sort them out. I know, as Members of Parliament, we come across this on a daily basis. We come across conflicts between youth who have formed companies and are in debt even before they realise. These are things that need to be clarified. As the custodian of this law, could the Attorney-General tell us how this information could be passed on to Kenyans? As it was mentioned by a Member earlier on, we have also found out that women have been great victims of these situations where spouses die without declaring which companies they were in and there has been a lot of silence. Their rights have been stepped on and their benefits have not been surrendered either to them or to their children. I am wondering how Kenyans can be educated on this. I would like the Attorney-General to look for a way in which this law, which will protect Kenyans from partners who may be calculating on making profits which they do not deserve, could be stopped. This is because not everybody knows how to look for redress in the courts or elsewhere. There seems to be dire need for education. I have come across several members of my constituency who have asked me questions on how they can get out of a partnership or get their dues out of a partnership that has gone sour. It seems as if Kenyans do not know much about this. We know that we are encouraging our youth to go into youth groups and some of them have moved, even beyond youth groups because of the existence of the Youth Enterprise Development Fund to form small companies that can enable them to do things for themselves. How can this information be passed on to them? This is the only question I have. Otherwise, I really support this Bill because it is very timely."
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