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"speaker_name": "Yatta, WDM",
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"content": "Another important element is HELB. I went to school and attained my first degree through the HELB loan. I have seen a reduction on HELB funds from Ksh37 billion to Ksh34 billion. That is about Ksh3 billion. That reduction will have a negative implication on learners from poor families. I am talking about 368,000 learners who will not continue with their higher learning, if that money is not reinstated. They will likely drop out of school because of financial constraints. Let us try to understand this particular issue, which is pertinent to poor Kenyans and reinstate the figure in the Budget Estimates. Lastly, I have noted that what is budgeted for the police medical insurance in the Budget Estimates is quite low compared to what the Police Service requested. It is important to understand that those people play an instrumental role in ensuring that Kenyans have internal security. So, we should ensure that we provide them with the money for the police medical insurance so as to support and motivate them. If we do not incentivise them, we will have policemen and women who are demotivated to discharge their duties. Going forward, I want to recommend that we look at the key sectors which drive the economy of this country and budget for them to ensure that they do not under-perform. They are the backbone and fulcrum of progress which we want to see in Kenya. This will make Kenya the great nation that all of us want to see. With those few remarks, I submit. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
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"speaker_name": "Hon. Farah Maalim",
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"content": " Hon. Mutunga,"
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"speaker_name": "Tigania West, UDA",
"speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) John Mutunga Kanyuithia",
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker for giving me the opportunity to add my voice to the debate on the Financial Year 2025/2026 Budget Estimates Report. The budget-making process started way back with the Budget Policy Statement (BPS). Notably, there is some deviation between the BPS that we saw and what has finally arrived as the Budget Estimates. The deviation in some sectors like the one I represent was negative. This will affect the planning of activities in that sector. This is against our expectations and so, we will have cost reduction in some activities. The efforts in the Budget Estimates progressively show provision for the BETA agenda priorities. In every sector, there is a provision. This is something that came up with the new Government, It was adopted and is bearing fruit. I hope that Kenyans are seeing this happening. I want to call upon them to appreciate the efforts being made, especially through the budgeting process by provision of a budget for some of those activities. At some point, we might have to harmonise the budget in some sectors. This is because they can move the economy to raise better revenue, create jobs and earn foreign exchange, but they are not given due recognition. Many of the speakers have alluded to sectors like ICT, agriculture, rural and urban development. We might need a national conversation on how to prioritise. When you look closely at what happens in several sectors, this is something that we need to take caution on as a country. This is because some of the activities are long term construction efforts. So, they do not necessary yield results immediately. A five-year term Government needs to yield results very fast. The current Government got into office on the platform of job creation. It can easily create jobs if we focus on some of sectors and give them more support. For example, the policy shift by the President to subsidise production and not consumption in the agricultural sector. This is coupled with the fact that God has been so gracious to us by giving us rains. This has made the country to realise food security over time. Those are some of the efforts we need to make. For instance, we have a target to improve coffee production from the current 50,000 metric tonnes to 200,000 metric tonnes by 2027. If we are to achieve that target, we The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for informationpurposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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"speaker_name": "Tigania West, UDA",
"speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) John Mutunga Kanyuithia",
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"content": "must do a lot of campaigns for landowners to grow coffee and intensification of coffee production and productivity. This cannot be done without proper budgeting and recognition of some of those activities in the budget process. In terms of harmonisation, we are investing in industrial packs and aggregating centres as a country. Having those industrial packs is a very good initiative. Most Kenyan farmers are small holders. They are the producers of the raw materials for industries and the little that we sell outside the country. Big producers who are small in scale will need to aggregate. For us to have aggregation centres that are supportive of the economy, we must organise the producers in a manner that they will respond to the demands of the day. In that respect, it calls for investment in the organisation process, setting up co-operatives across the country and enabling those people to work, harvest, store and sell together. Those are some of the omissions in the Budget Estimates that need to be looked into. The other notable inclusion in this respect is the focus on institutional support. Most of the Government institutions have been supported in the Budget Estimates. I have in mind the military, police, Judiciary and Parliament. I want to call upon those institutions to do their work and deliver their promises to Kenyans. This will guarantee them further support and give Kenyans the due recognition of the role that they play. We have seen in the budgeting process the effort to sustain the budget deficit and to live within our means. The concern is that the fiscal space is limited. Under such limitation, we need to operate within the confines of the fiscal space. So, budgeting has been done in a way that it will not open up room for more demand of resources. That is a deliberate effort by the Government and this House to ensure that we do not open up that lid. It is important for us to note as a country, there are certain projects that impact the livelihood of Kenyans fast. When you debate for instance the transfer of NG-CDF to the counties, those who live there are our brothers and sisters. We went to the same schools with them. We live in the same localities and all support devolution. However, if something is working, why change it? This is the only fund in this country which has a management fee of 5 per cent. I would like to explain why 5 per cent is so significant. If you are doing research and the data variation is not beyond 5 per cent, you normally conclude that there is no significant difference in the responses. In this particular respect, it means, therefore, that most of the money utilised under NG-CDF goes to development and that is why there is so much impact."
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"speaker_name": "Tigania West, UDA",
"speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) John Mutunga Kanyuithia",
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"content": "We need to ask ourselves why somebody should imagine that something that is working needs to be altered or changed. There is fear among Kenyans that NG-CDF is going to be removed while there is fear among Members that in next Financial Year, 2026/2027, we will not budget for it. I want to appeal to our judicial system that we need to look at these issues more constructively, especially when it comes to the role played by different individuals in terms of delivering development. My final point is on the need to focus a lot more on the software as opposed to the hardware. For the hardware, I have in mind the constructionism while for the software, I have in mind things that make us turn around the results. For instance, when it comes to biological forms, genetic improvement in health, disease containment or control and in education, educating Kenyans appropriately to gain knowledge, those are some of the areas we need to give more focus. There is an inclination towards construction in this country. Apart from the new program on affordable housing, different sectors need to reduce a lot more on investing in infrastructural development. On infrastructural development, I have in mind construction of offices and other facilities so as to focus more on the software that will turn around this economy. If we have to turn around the economy, we have to be a lot more focused on the productive sector which does not demand a lot of resources. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for informationpurposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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"speaker_name": "Tigania West, UDA",
"speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) John Mutunga Kanyuithia",
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"content": "Hon. Temporary Speaker, with those few remarks, I wish to support the adoption of this Report. Thank you."
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"speaker_name": "Hon. Farah Maalim",
"speaker_title": "The Temporary Speaker",
"speaker": null,
"content": " Hon. Tom Kajwang’"
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"speaker_name": "Ruaraka, ODM",
"speaker_title": "Hon. TJ Kajwang’",
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to speak on the Report on the Consideration of the Budget Estimates for the Financial Year, 2025/2026. I want to congratulate Hon. Chairman and the entire team of the Budget and Appropriations Committee, for finalising a beautiful Report. I have compared it against the Budget Policy Statement and the initial submissions by the Cabinet Secretary from the National Treasury and Economic Planning. I am satisfied that this team has done tremendous work to change what the National Treasury brought to us. They have given us a product which looks like Kenya. I want to thank you my friend, Hon. Atandi from Alego Usonga. It is a good thing to have experts like you. We have donated you freely to give your professional services to this good exercise so that we have a country which belongs to us."
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"speaker_name": "Ruaraka, ODM",
"speaker_title": "Hon. TJ Kajwang’",
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"content": "Hon. Temporary Speaker, you know that we have been crying about skewed budgets because some counties, places or regions have been taking more than the lion share. However, we have seen the proposals from the National Treasury are now balanced. So, we have budgets for Baringo and comparative budgets for Homa Bay and Nairobi. For the first time, Nairobi has been looked at as an entity and region. Generally, it makes my heart happy that I am a member of this Assembly that is now considering the appropriation of the Budget."
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"content": "Just last week, some people were laughing that there are some gentlemen in Homa Bay who were sleeping in the stadium. This is because they were happy that a stadium was built in Homa Bay, when other people were talking about securitisation of the economy. They thought that those people who were sleeping in the stadium did not know what they were doing. How can they not sleep there yet that is the only stadium which has ever been built? It is the only practical thing they have seen in this economy? Where were you when we were securitising the economy of Mount Kenya region and elsewhere? Some of you have premised that economic development belongs to some people as a matter of right. Homa Bay people are celebrating the stadium because it is the first one they have seen in all their lives. What is wrong with doing that? They are showing that they belong to this country. Watch this space! The blue economy will blossom through this budget that is properly packaged. You will now see the people of Homa Bay not only dancing in the stadium, but they will be securitisation."
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