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    "id": 59992,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/59992/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kiunjuri",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Public Works",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 175,
        "legal_name": "Festus Mwangi Kiunjuri",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, we should legislate to the effect that we empower our youth, not through giving them fish but by showing them how to fish. Why do I say this? Already you have not established any firm institution where the youth can go and borrow soft loans and pay at an interest rate that they can afford. Today, if you ask a young man to go to Equity Bank, Kenya Commercial Bank, Barclays Bank or Standard Bank and they are supposed to pay 15 per cent interest and there is no moratorium period, then we will be still impoverishing them. So, we should set up those institutions, make sure that there is employment and empower our people. When we talk of the youth, I am talking of the poor of this country; we are not only discussing about the youth. We are talking of grandfathers, grandmothers, fathers and mothers who can also not afford those facilities. Borrowing should be made easier for the people of Kenya."
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