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    "id": 949348,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mugo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 85,
        "legal_name": "Beth Wambui Mugo",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I feel strongly that we also need to establish funds to support this sector. We have the Women Enterprise Fund and Youth Enterprise Development Fund. The county could also have such funds to support mama mbogas who are the ones who feed this country, especially very many households. They also feed and provide finance to their own families. However, it is very difficult for them to access even little money to start their businesses. Madam Temporary Speaker, I remember when I used to represent Dagoretti Constituency, the street vendors and mama mboga’s, they would queue outside the constituency office looking for very little money to enable them start a mboga business and other businesses. This would maybe money to just buy a sack of cabbages. They start with very little. At that time, one of the banks offered to support us in that area, and the businesses for mama mboga’s grew in leaps and bounds. Even as the constituency office, we started a small fund with which we supported quite a few of them. There are also the cancer survivors and the women from violent homes who came for support from us. All those women required very little money to be able to start their small business. They then grew it to a big business. I am not talking about a big business the way we talk about big businesses. However, for that matter, they are successful enough and looked up to, to support their families and the community. I would, therefore, encourage us to consider having in this Bill, a provision where we could have a mechanism to financially support the informal sector by offering them some funds. I have not seen that provision in this Bill. Madam Temporary Speaker, the other reason I felt that I needed to add a little bit more – although I was thinking that this Bill has been very well covered and we will only keep on repeating the same issue – is regulating making spaces available for the vendors and having a right to that space. This is especially so in the city and maybe in townships. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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