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    "id": 801801,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Tuya",
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        "legal_name": "Roselinda Soipan Tuya",
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    "content": "pending. It has resulted in the freezing of the Women Enterprise Development Fund, the Youth Enterprise Development Fund and the like. They are not active at the moment pending operationalisation of the Biashara Fund. I am also aware that the NYS budget which is the one that goes towards empowering our youth has suffered a fate where we have a lot of decrease in that vote, and for good reasons. I totally understand why we have had that decrease. In fact, I add my voice to the people who are saying they wish we could suspend the whole NYS department until it is put in order. These social development aspects of the Budget are inactive at the moment. When you look at the National Government Affirmative Action Fund, there is a very negligible increase which was done by the BAC. All this is going towards a very detrimental effect on the social aspects of the common mwananchi. It is something we need to look into. In as much as we have the NYS scandal and we have that decrease or taking away money from the NYS so that we give it time for us to really put things in order, people who are suffering are the women, youth, the poorest and the grassroots populations in this country. On the monies that have been taken away from the NYS, can we look for other avenues through which they will still go towards helping the youth not necessarily through the NYS rather than taking them out and putting them in other votes which do not go towards supporting the initial intended beneficiaries? That is so that we do not punish the youth because of the corrupt actions of a few people in these ministries. In as much I am decrying the facts that this social development aspect of the Budget is really at its very minimal, hearing the presentation by the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Sports, Culture and Tourism this morning, I was a bit encouraged to see an allocation of Kshs426 million that is going towards a very new initiative called The Ushanga Initiative. It is an opportunity for the pastoralist women of this country to finally have a share or a bite of the national cake. The Ushanga Initiative goes to touch that Turkana woman who puts a lot of energy towards piecing together through beadwork so that she is able to feed her children; to earn something from that craft. The women of Narok, Pokot, and the several pastoralist counties which have been flagged as the pilot project for the Ushanga Initiative is something which makes me very happy. We will not accept any attempt to bring an amendment to touch on that. Already, we are seeing there is a suffering the women have to bear. It is because of the non- operationalisation of the Biashara Fund. I support that aspect and pray that the Ushanga Initiative is going to be implemented in the best way possible so that, finally, we can have the pastoralist women benefiting from a craft they know best. I am hoping that the Kamba women with their baskets and all these other crafts women at the grassroots levels engage in will systematically be recognised and given support so that they can earn a livelihood."
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