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"speaker_name": "Elgeyo Marakwet County, Independent",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Caroline Ng’elechei",
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"content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I was very delighted when the President said that he is a listening President. There is nothing as important as having somebody who is able to listen. Ironically, some members of the public castigated Members of Parliament for applauding the President when he said that he was cancelling the Adani deals on JKIA and KETRACO. We were so elated because we realized that our President listens. When members of the public are agitated, or when they complain about something, he listens. He also said he knows that there are times when there is discussion as to whether leaders understand that there is a problem in the country. That tells you that he is also aware of what members of the public are going through, and what is affecting this country. I am very sure that he is somebody who understands things. He was able to confess that he really understands what is going on in the country, and he is able to find solution. I appreciate that we have a leader who listens and understands, and he is able to make well-informed decisions. Our President has chosen the road that is less travelled because it is unpopular. There are some things that he could have chosen not to go into. Since Independence, successive presidents chose normal presidency, avoiding dealing with complicated or complex issues. We have had the NHIF for a very long time even though it had not been serving the members of public very well. However, previous regimes feared touching it. The previous university education funding model is another example. It has taken a very bold and courageous step for the President to decide and change the university education funding model. We are now beginning to see fruits because it means that we will have equity in our society. Students from less fortunate families will not be graded the same way as students from families that are a little bit better off in life."
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"speaker_name": "Elgeyo Marakwet County, Independent",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Caroline Ng’elechei",
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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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"speaker_title": "Hon. Caroline Ng’elechei",
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"content": "I applaud the President for realizing that in our society, we are not equal. We are different. Individual people have been blessed differently. It is very unfortunate that a Member of Parliament like myself and my neighbour, who may not have had enough resources to be able to educate and feed his children, was required to pay the same amount of fees at the university. However, the new model, having put different categories of students in different bands, every Kenyan student is now able to access university education. There was a crisis in this country. Many people did not realize that most of the public universities were in ICU financially. They were dying. I am an alumnus of Moi University. As we speak, I am very sad because I do not know whether it will sink or float. How will I tell the story to my grandchildren in future of the university that I went to? It will be very shameful to say that I went to a defunct or dead university. I want to believe that the new university education funding model will be able to revive our dying public universities and give chance to the less fortunate members of our society. I am sure that Hon. Members of Parliament, as well as members of the society, will be happy because there will be fewer Harambee meetings to attend to make sure that all the university students continue with their education. I was very happy with the President’s Speech because he spoke about fertiliser subsidy. I come from Elgeyo Marakwet County, which is an agricultural region. Due to the fertiliser subsidy and the good weather that God has blessed us with, farmers got a bumper harvest. As Hon. Members may be aware, Uganda has closed her borders, and the Government is not allowing exportation of maize to Kenya. This is because their country was not blessed with as much rainfall as our country was in the last season. This has cushioned Kenyans from food shortage this year. I advise the governors to ensure delivery of fertilisers to interior places in their counties. An example is Chesoi in Elgeyo Marakwet County…"
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"content": " Please, add her half a minute."
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"speaker_name": "Elgeyo Marakwet, Independent",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Caroline Ng’elechei",
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I wish the Governor of Elgeyo Marakwet County could deliver fertilisers to the interior areas of the county. This is because farmers incur high transport costs and end up using a lot money transporting fertilisers from the designated depots to their farms. I appreciate the revival of sugar factories because my brothers and sisters in western Kenya will have employment opportunities. We will have a lot of sugar, which we will sell to earn foreign exchange. Lastly, I appreciate the employment of additional teachers. They should not be sent to private schools but to village public primary schools. That is where students whose parents cannot afford the high fees charged by private schools go to study. They have been suffering because they lack enough teachers. I want to appreciate the President for noticing this…"
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"content": " Next is the Member for Webuye East. He will be followed by the Member for Sotik, the Member for Ruiru, and Hon. Kagombe in that order. Member for Emurua Dikirr you will be in the next group, just relax."
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"speaker_name": "Webuye East, FORD-K",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Martin Wanyonyi",
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"content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Allow me to also appreciate the President for performing his duties under Article 132 of the Constitution, of reporting to the nation on matters of critical centrality to the Republic of Kenya. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I laud him for being sensitive and demonstrating that he is a listening President by cancelling the Adani JKIA deal. The people of Kenya had pronounced themselves clearly that it was not a good deal. The cancellation is a demonstration that he is sensitive and responsive to the desires of the people of Kenya. I only want to ask that in future, we should ensure that we always do due diligence before entering into contracts that can put us into problems and shame, like the Adani deals. Kenyans have, under Article 43 of the Constitution, given successive governments the responsibility of ensuring that they provided affordable housing and quality healthcare. The"
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"speaker_name": "Webuye East, FORD-K",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Martin Wanyonyi",
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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": "previous regime failed to provide these amenities. I am happy that through SHA, we are now offering universal healthcare. I thank the President because the Government has gone out of its way to provides funds to SHA to settle debts to privately-owned, faith-based and public health facilities. The debts have been outstanding for the last 10 years. My only prayer is that the county governments will do their part. The national Government is doing well in terms of providing the software. The county governments must provide the hardware. By ‘providing the hardware’ I mean taking the responsibility of building Levels I, II, III, IV and V Hospitals as stipulated in the Fourth Schedule of the County Government Act, 2012. The county governments must also do their part in supporting the national Government by providing the healthcare infrastructure and medicines as stipulated in the Constitution. We cannot effectively provide Kenyans with affordable healthcare without the county government playing their part. I thank His Excellency because of the issue he raised concerning education. I know that he is doing everything he can to ensure that reforms are done in the education sector. My only prayer is that we must also go out of our ways to ensure that we prepare the country and the Ministry well as we roll out Grade Nine in 2025. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I finally thank the President because of the steps he is taking to reform the sugarcane sector. There are many factories that are now alive and working. A factory like Nzoia Sugar Company Limited is having problems because of many pending court cases. The Judiciary must also be pragmatic enough to ensure that some of these cases do not stall for so long and disrupt the process of reforms laid out for the sugar sector. Hon. Temporary Speaker, the President was clear that the country is on the right track. We have done so much but much is yet to be done. The many promises that we made, the..."
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