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    "id": 956095,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/956095/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Rangwe, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Lilian Gogo",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13464,
        "legal_name": "Lilian Achieng Gogo",
        "slug": "lilian-achieng-gogo"
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    "content": "skilled youth out there. Not all of our young people who are training and getting out of training colleges can be absorbed in the already existing systems. I want to look at young women who are also seriously engaged in work they have come up with, like business and other levels of earning a living. We have to go out of our way to teach our population that people should come up with their own ideas and learn to work in order to earn, engage and also save. Many systems that have been put in place are also not getting properly utilised. We have, for example, the Uwezo Fund that the Government has created to give funds to people to do business, especially women and young people. But people, especially in Rangwe Constituency, where I come from, are scared of taking loans from these Funds. I believe that this fear cuts across the board. It is important that we come out and train our young people. We should engage with them in serious training, follow up and looking at ways of mitigating against the bottlenecks that make people not to take loans from the existing affirmative action Funds. It is on record and the truth that the Government has put up systems that can be used to have our young people and women of this country get money. Like in my Constituency, Rangwe, you just find people making it very difficult to get a loan. If you are entitled to get a loan of about Kshs100,000, there are…"
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