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    "id": 978251,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kisauni, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Mbogo Ali",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13383,
        "legal_name": "Ali Menza Mbogo",
        "slug": "ali-menza-mbogo"
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    "content": "The census results were released late last year. The results confirmed that 73 per cent of the population of this country are youth. This clearly confirms that this country is a youthful nation but what are we doing about these youth? What resources have we deployed to ensure that the youth are catered for whatever they want to do? There are issues of medical care. There are also issues of funding to encourage them to venture into businesses but this has not been actualised. The Government came up with so many initiatives to support the youth. They came up with the Youth Enterprise Development Fund, Uwezo Fund and Biashara Fund but all these initiatives are not delivering what is expected of them. In my constituency of Kisauni, for example, the youth have been applying to get funding from the Youth Fund and Uwezo Fund but there is a lot of bureaucracy. The Youth Fund is centralised. Everything has to be decided in Nairobi. It is not like Uwezo Fund where Members of Parliament are patrons. Nevertheless, most of our youth today end up being given small loans here and there and their names have ended up in Credit Reference Bureau (CRB). So, they are not able to access those funds because one of the requirements to access money from the Youth Enterprise Development Fund and Uwezo Fund is that you have to be cleared by CRB. Most of our youth are victims of small loans they took through Fuliza, M-Shwari and so forth. There is need for all these funds to be restructured, if we want to help the youth of this country."
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