Uhuru Kenyatta

All parliamentary appearances

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• 9 Nov 2023 in National Assembly: As I earlier indicated, our public borrowing had long crowded our productive sector from the financial markets, raising the cost of credit and slowing down trade and commerce, especially the micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, including view
• 9 Nov 2023 in National Assembly: . Consequently, many enterprises and entrepreneurs were referred for blacklisting by the Credit Reference Bureau (CRB), where 7 million borrowers were listed by last year. We committed to provide affordable and accessible credit and restore small business owners to good standing with credit rating agencies. A deliberate, targeted strategic financial inclusion fund: The Hustler Fund, providing affordable credit and mobilising savings for individuals and small businesses was launched on 30th November 2022. The public response to the Hustler Fund has exceeded most initial projections and surprised even the most hardened sceptics. By the end of last month, the Fund had ... view
• 9 Nov 2023 in National Assembly: . Consequently, many enterprises and entrepreneurs were referred for blacklisting by the Credit Reference Bureau (CRB), where 7 million borrowers were listed by last year. We committed to provide affordable and accessible credit and restore small business owners to good standing with credit rating agencies. A deliberate, targeted strategic financial inclusion fund: The Hustler Fund, providing affordable credit and mobilising savings for individuals and small businesses was launched on 30th November 2022. The public response to the Hustler Fund has exceeded most initial projections and surprised even the most hardened sceptics. By the end of last month, the Fund had ... view
• 9 Nov 2023 in National Assembly: In the intervening period, the Hustler Fund has also launched a group product, which has attracted 50,000 active groups to the platform of which 20,000 have received Ksh151 million. The Hustler Fund has provided us not only the huge pent-up demand for affordable credit, but also the readiness of Kenyans to embrace credit and savings and to pay their loans on time with minimum prompting. The notion that Kenyans are not credit worthy or are high- risk borrowers is nothing more than unjust financial profiling which has, in many instances, become a needless self-fulfilling prophecy. view
• 9 Nov 2023 in National Assembly: In the intervening period, the Hustler Fund has also launched a group product, which has attracted 50,000 active groups to the platform of which 20,000 have received Ksh151 million. The Hustler Fund has provided us not only the huge pent-up demand for affordable credit, but also the readiness of Kenyans to embrace credit and savings and to pay their loans on time with minimum prompting. The notion that Kenyans are not credit worthy or are high- risk borrowers is nothing more than unjust financial profiling which has, in many instances, become a needless self-fulfilling prophecy. view
• 9 Nov 2023 in National Assembly: . Consequently, many enterprises and entrepreneurs were referred for blacklisting by the Credit Reference Bureau (CRB), where 7 million borrowers were listed by last year. We committed to provide affordable and accessible credit and restore small business owners to good standing with credit rating agencies. A deliberate, targeted strategic financial inclusion fund: The Hustler Fund, providing affordable credit and mobilising savings for individuals and small businesses was launched on 30th November 2022. The public response to the Hustler Fund has exceeded most initial projections and surprised even the most hardened sceptics. By the end of last month, the Fund had ... view
• 9 Nov 2023 in National Assembly: Yesterday, When I called Harrison Karisa Kenga, a Tuk Tuk operator in Mombasa, who has accessed Ksh714,000 from the Hustler Fund, he suggested to me to find a way to have the Fund provide asset financing so that he can buy for himself a Tuk Tuk because the one he had was not his. I assured him that during my address today, I would ask the ministry The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 9 Nov 2023 in National Assembly: Yesterday, When I called Harrison Karisa Kenga, a Tuk Tuk operator in Mombasa, who has accessed Ksh714,000 from the Hustler Fund, he suggested to me to find a way to have the Fund provide asset financing so that he can buy for himself a Tuk Tuk because the one he had was not his. I assured him that during my address today, I would ask the ministry The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 9 Nov 2023 in National Assembly: The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard andAudio Services, Senate. view
• 9 Nov 2023 in National Assembly: The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard andAudio Services, Senate. view