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"content": "By containing inflation, we have—in a significant way—managed to contain the high cost of living. I know we are not yet there. However, the message from the President is that we are getting there. With the fall of the dollar against the Kenya Shilling, we have saved in our debt servicing cost. You can imagine that for every dollar we borrowed, we saved almost Ksh33, which is significant to Kenyans. It is money that we can deploy in development activities across the nation. In speaking to the realisation of the national values and principles of governance, the President spoke in detail about the investments in the affordable housing programme and employment of 56,000 teachers in only two years. He stated that by the time he took over office, we had a shortage of 110,000 teachers. That tells you we have only employed 50 per cent of the required teachers. He also enumerated the gains we have made in the education sector in trying to stabilise the shaky industry we had when he took over two years ago. We had a new Competency Based Curriculum (CBC). We were not sure where we would host our CBC students in Junior Secondary School (JSS). All Kenyans know these young ones are hosted in our primary schools. Massive investment has been made in the education sector. Close to 11,000 classrooms were built within a year to ensure that our JSS children have classrooms across the nation. I must commend the collaboration that Members of Parliament have given the Ministry of Education through the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF). They have made it a reality that across our country, children transitioning from Grade 8 to Grade 9 in January have classrooms and laboratories to help them cater for their education. The President indicated that in January 2025, a further 20,000 teachers will be hired, bringing the total to 76,000 teachers to bridge the deficit of 110,000 teachers . In the health sector, the President enumerated the transition that we have made. He thanked the House for the enactment of the Social Health Insurance Fund (SHIF) and the other laws that this House and the Senate passed that have enabled this country to transition from the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) to SHIF or Taifa Care as it has been christened. As the President indicated, the Taifa Care Programme is designed to expand healthcare access to all citizens, and not just the privileged few. NHIF largely catered for the privileged few who were employed with salaries. However, Taifa Care caters for those not privileged to be employed and those working in the informal sector. More importantly, it caters for the vulnerable populations of unemployed people and the elderly who benefit from the Cash Transfer Programme and are now automatically being on-boarded, upon registration into the SHIF. People have demonised this programme largely out of disinformation and misinformation being propagated out there without realising the huge benefits. I am very happy today because Kenyans across the nation are now posting their testimonials of the benefits they have accrued on social media. Mothers who deliver in hospitals are getting both prenatal and postnatal care under SHIF. People who suffer from chronic illnesses— under the Emergency, Chronic and Critical Illness Fund—access dialysis. Those who suffer from cancer access chemotherapy care under Taifa Care enjoy the benefits of this Fund without waiting. Kenyans"
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"content": "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."
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"content": "did not know that there was a waiting period under the NHIF. You could not be on-boarded upon paying, and your bills would not be sorted out in hospitals until after six months. Under Taifa Care, the moment you register and then go to the means testing instrument and pay your premiums, you are immediately on-boarded, and you can begin enjoying medical care services. The same goes to those suffering from chronic illnesses. This SHIF, under Taifa Care, is not only transformative for this country but it is also a programme that will benefit the most vulnerable people in society in a big way. I have heard people asking the President what happened to the people he was speaking about during the campaigns. Hon. Speaker and I accompanied the President across the nation. We told people that we would uplift those at the bottom of the economic pyramid to the top. Part of that uplifting of mama mboga and the boda boda rider is to make them enjoy the same level of medical care and insurance cover that a Member of Parliament, governor and President enjoy in this country. When they are sick or have an accident, they will enjoy the same level of care as a Member of Parliament. Members of Parliament who were paying Ksh1,700 under NHIF are now paying close to Ksh27,000. This money will take care of many of our constituents who wait for us over the weekends to beg for fundraisers to take care of their bills. I look forward, in the coming days, to a time when no Member of Parliament will fear going to their village homes because of the many people queuing around their homes and offices waiting for fundraising for their hospital bills because they will be taken care of by Taifa Care. Indeed, it cares about our nation. It is about caring for the vulnerable in our nation who are at the bottom of the economic pyramid. Let us take advantage of the long recess to on board as many of our constituents as possible to the (SHIF) or Taifa Care Programme so that they may continue to enjoy these gains. In expounding on the national values, the President alluded to the Affordable Housing Programme, which also incorporates an element of social housing and market or commercial rate housing. The 4,888 affordable housing units across the country that were recently launched are not just stimulating the construction and manufacturing industry but also creating millions of jobs across the country in the manufacturing sector for those who are in the steel, cement and timber production industries. It is also directly employing architects, engineers, lawyers who are doing conveyancing, fundis and handymen who are working on the sites, and also"
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"content": "and baba mbogas who are supplying food in the construction sites. Members of Parliament who have these projects in their constituencies can testify to the transformation that the Affordable Housing Programme has brought to the neighbourhoods where these programmes are. Markets, whether middle-level, large, or the Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP) that are being built across the country are in a big way transforming neighbourhoods, changing the landscape of our towns and shopping centres, and, more importantly, addressing the question of unemployment by providing employment opportunities to millions of our youth. It is not to say we are there yet; we are moving on. That is why the President alluded to the overseas opportunities and across our borders, that close to 105,000 Kenyans have now secured employment and millions have also been empowered by the Hustler Fund to become employers and self-employed. In safeguarding our national values, encouraging patriotism, the rule of law, democracy, and participation of the people, I am glad that His Excellency the President never shied away from speaking about the issues raised by Kenyans. I was happy when I heard him say that there is a difference between an arrest and an abduction because Kenyans have now been tuned by the culture of misinformation and disinformation. Even when I am arrested, my supporters just need to post on social media that the Member of Parliament for Kikuyu has been abducted. I am happy that the President was very clear in creating that dichotomy between what legitimate arrests are and what abductions are and what government agencies ought to be doing,"
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"content": "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."
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"content": "should be doing and must do about abductions. Abductions are not necessarily from Government agencies. We have seen, and I spoke here last week about the example of the criminal element arrested by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) - and I thank them for the swift action - where young women were abducted from Eastleigh, tortured and murdered. The same character then abducted and killed another lady in Kilimani. I have heard even some of us out there speak about these things. We are very quick to condemn but slow to thank DCI when they act swiftly to ensure that criminals who either maim, hurt, or even murder ―whether it is the killing of women or other people, including men ― are arrested. When DCI officers apprehend these criminals, we must thank them. However, we must also condemn any manner of abduction, and all Government agencies must act in accordance with our Constitution and statutes and ensure that we are all safe. I am glad that the President spoke at length on these issues. In the agricultural sector, the backbone of our economy, inflation has dropped from 9.6 per cent to 2.7 per cent, the first in 17 years, because it was only before the post-election violence in 2005 to 2007 that we had this kind of inflation. We would not have been able to achieve this had this administration not been deliberate in the massive investment that it hase put in, and the President has been speaking about it on subsidised fertiliser. It is out of this subsidised fertiliser that we said we shall no longer subsidise consumption but production, and the results are there to be seen. We are not just talking about low inflation at 2.7 per cent, down from 9.6 per cent, but also about increased production that is bringing down the cost of food prices, and therefore, bringing the inflation rate down. I listened to the President speak about the sugar industry last week, saying that 17 sugar factories in this country are up and running for the first time. Four new factories are under construction, not just to process sugar because the sugarcane is there but also because we have encouraged our farmers to get back to sugarcane production. Hon. Wangwe, the sponsor of the Sugar Bill, will tell you that some years back, farmers in Western Kenya and the sugar belt areas of our country were moving away from sugarcane to other food crops because they were frustrated. Today, sugar farmers are returning to sugarcane farming because it is now paying, and we can now produce adequate sugar for our country. More importantly, we are now not only producing sugar as a raw material for those 17 Class IV factories but also creating employment not just for farmers in the production cycle but also in the manufacturing cycle. Factories are now roaring back to life, providing millions of young people with job opportunities. We are also saving on our foreign exchange. Only last year, we imported hundreds of thousands of metric tonnes of sugar into this country, exporting our dollars to other countries like Mexico and Brazil. However, for the first time this year, we are not importing even a kilogramme of sugar. These are things that we must shout about and be proud of, that when we spoke about the import substitution policy, people thought it was just stories we were talking about. It is now a reality that we are not importing sugar. If anything, we can now export sugar to Sudan. I know people who are now trying to export our sugar to Sudan. However, we must also caution the Ministry concerned to ensure we do not export all our sugar and are left without enough for our local consumption. We must be proud that it is not just sugarcane but also maize. Only a year ago, we had to import maize, but we now do not have to import a single grain of it. We have enough being produced. In fact, the fallacy is that now the farmers say that the prices have gone too low at the expense of consumers, who would be complaining if the prices were high. We now have adequate food and ensure food security in our country; food prices and inflation are down, and the shilling is strong. Our nation's economy is getting stronger by the day. In conclusion, I have heard many people admonish Members of Parliament because they gave a standing ovation to the President when he directed the termination of the Adani contracts. In fact, I took time to go"
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"content": "through the clips to see what they said. They were defending the issue of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) as an alternative way of implementing our capital projects. That has not changed. When the President appeared here, he indicated that he had received information from friendly partner states. That is the reason why he terminated the Adani deals. This is not to mean that we do not need a new Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) or that millions of Kenyans with no access to power do not need it. This is not to mean…"
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