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"speaker_name": "Mr. Henry Rotich",
"speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury",
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"content": "sponsored Kenya Devolution Support Program (KDSP) and I intend to scale up this allocation Kshs6.3 billion in the course of the year. In addition, in order to enhance public finance management skills of county governments’ officials, the National Treasury will intensify its training at the Kenya School of Government, including on public procurement. We will continue to co-operate with county governments to ensure quality, effective and efficient service delivery to our citizens. In this context, the Government has partnered with the African Development Bank to implement a program that seeks to improve access and quality water supply and sanitation services in urban areas in Kenya, in a sustainable manner. In addition, the national Government is also collaborating with the Nairobi City County in the implementation of the Nairobi Regeneration Program. Some of the activities to be undertaken under this program are: first, cleaning of Nairobi River; second, issuing over 50,000 land titles to land owners in the Eastlands of Nairobi City County; third, decongesting the Nairobi City by creating a Mass Rapid Transit System and deploying high capacity buses; fourth, decongesting Kenyatta National Hospital by providing capacity in other health facilities under the Nairobi City County Government such as Mama Lucy, Mutuini and Pumwani hospitals. To support regeneration of the Nairobi River, in a collaboration between the national Government and the Nairobi City County Government, I have allocated Kshs800 million in the budget for Financial Year 2018/2019. Hon. Speaker, with the discovery of new minerals, we are determined to work with mining companies and communities to grow the sector, attract new investment, create jobs and set the industry on a new path of transformation and sustainability. To further support mining activities and geophysical mapping, I have set aside Kshs509 million, and a further Kshs500 million, respectively. To further support development of the blue economy, I have allocated Kshs575 million for aquaculture technology development and innovation transfers. Our strategies to revive tourism have borne fruits. To further support tourism activities, I have allocated Kshs1 billion to scale up promotion of tourism, Kshs340 million for sustaining new markets and sitting booths, Kshs380 million for capital lending to hoteliers and Kshs325 million for restoration of Fort Jesus. The Early Oil Pilot Scheme has now taken off, setting Kenya on stage to join the league of oil exporting countries. Like our neighbours, Kenya has the potential of harnessing many other natural resources and this will further diversify our economy and provide the much needed foreign exchange and job creation. It is critically important that we design a framework for managing these new resources in order to avoid the so called “Dutch Disease”. In this context, we have already completed the Sovereign Wealth Fund legislation which will help us deal with the potential windfall of resources from the extractive sector and will also help us manage the resource responsibly for the current and future generations. We will soon be submitting this legislation to this august House after Cabinet approval. Concurrently, we are working with our private sector partners to develop the necessary infrastructure to evacuate and achieve early monetization of our crude oil resources. In this regard, work is on-going for; first, the development of the upstream facilities which include drilling of over 200 production wells and the installation of the necessary oil drilling facilities to allow the flow of 60,000 to 80,000 barrels of oil per day; second, the development of the proposed 821 kilometres crude oil pipeline from Lokichar oil fields to Lamu and third, the export facilities at Lamu. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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