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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. At the outset, I support this Budget. However, I must dissuade some of the Members of this august House from deciding that because I come from Mt Kenya region now, I am guilty of what my forefathers did. At the time of Independence when the Sessional Paper No.10 was being presented, we had representation in the Cabinet from all over the country. The Government then, after having fought for Independence, was made of people from across the ethnic divide and people from different regions in the country. As such, the wisdom of our forefathers then, cannot be used to make us guilty today. Hon. Temporary Speaker, this Budget has a lot of money going to the blue economy. I am not complaining but encouraging people in my region to also venture into aquaculture so that they can benefit. This is the kind of mindset I would like to see our current leaders articulate and adopt, so that we build a better foundation for our children and their children and consequently, they can manage to resolve the challenges they will face. Can we resolve 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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"content": "the challenges we are facing today without wanting to demonise one section of the country or one area of the country? I voted in this Parliament to remove a person from my region from office because I felt he was not right for this country. I urge all of us to embrace the broad- based Government and adopt what Hon. Atandi has done as the Chairman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee. Let us focus on that."
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"content": "I am happy that the coffee sector has received Ksh500 million for revival. The revival of coffee in this country and the earnings from that cash crop will be more dependent on the new coffee-growing regions, including Nyanza, Rift Valley and Western Kenya. At the same time, some of that money must be ploughed into the Mount Kenya region for regeneration of the old coffee bushes which are more than 62 years old."
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"content": "Hon. Temporary Speaker, I am happy that we have money to revitalise New Kenya Planters Cooperative Union (NKPCU). It will serve the whole country in warehousing coffee irrespective of where it is coming from. I am happy we have money for settling coffee debts. Our athletes have really made our country proud. However, in the recent past, we have suffered the shame of some of them being caught in doping. The fact that this Budget has provided money for testing and educating our athletes is a big plus. The Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) sector is a game- changer in this country at a time when formal employment is shrinking and digitisation is changing work. The acquisition of technical skills is one of the areas that is going to help our people go into self-employment. The fact that we have provided additional resources for hiring technical staff is a big plus. I am an alumnus of the Kenya Medical Training College (KMTC). Higher education funding in this country has discriminated diploma students for a very long time. Students pursuing medical and diploma courses have not been benefiting from HELB. Yet, Teacher Training Colleges (TTCs) fall under the Ministry of Education. It is instructive in this Budget that part of the health budget has been appropriated to provide HELB for KMTC students. I am urging this House to collectively look at the issue of funding tertiary education so that none of our young people are discriminated. Hon. Temporary Speaker, we have been complaining about services in our national referral hospitals. One of the biggest burdens in those institutions has been the shortfall in personnel emoluments. I thank the Budget and Appropriations Committee for accepting the proposal by the Departmental Committee on Health, where I am a member, to fully provide for the personnel emoluments package for all our referral hospitals workers. Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is heavily dependent on the provision of diagnostic services at the lower-level facilities, including Level 1, Level 2, Level 3 and Level 4 hospitals. The expired Managed Equipment Services (MES) program has stood in the way of the implementation of the National Equipment Placement Service (NESP) that is supposed to benefit UHC health facilities. Therefore, I am happy that money has been provided for the closure of the MES program and paved the way for NESP. One of the saddest issues is failure to immunise our children on account of failure to remit funds for vaccines that are provided through Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI) and United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF). I once again thank the Chairman, Hon. Atandi, for caring for the children of this country. He has ensured that the requisite funding for our vaccines as well as for Human 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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"content": "Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Tuberculosis (TB) commodities has been provided. The shortfall of almost Ksh34 billion from the threatened withdrawal of United States Agency for International Development (USAID) funding in the health sector has been provided for in this Budget. That is a big plus. I have seen quite a number of sports academies. I want to remind our House that the Competency Based Curriculum (CBC) pathways dictate that talented athletes across the country should have facilities for the development of their talent. Therefore, I am urging us all to be more aware while looking at the proposal on where the sports academies are going to be built to ensure that there is equity across the regions and across the counties. That is because sporting talent abounds. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I am unhappy because of the reduction in the provision for payment to support children, orphans, vulnerable families and the indigents with Social Health Insurance Fund (SHIF). Those are the lowest of the lowest in our society. It is not prudent of us to remove money that is supposed to pay for SHIF for the street families and orphans in this country. Where is our conscience? Where do we want them to access health services from? Yet, it is mandatory for every Kenyan to have a health insurance cover. I urge this House that we be more careful in terms of dealing with the most vulnerable in our society. In conclusion, the Junior Secondary Schools (JSS) are supposed to have science laboratories. I urge the Departmental Committee on Education and this House, in the consideration of the education budget, to kindly factor in money for the construction of Junior Secondary School (JSS) laboratories. Thank you. I support."
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"speaker_name": "Hon. Peter Kaluma",
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"content": " Hon. Victor Koech."
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"content": " Thank you so much, Hon. Temporary Speaker for giving me the opportunity to also contribute to this Report before this House, on the consideration of the 2025/2026 Budget. At the outset, I join my colleagues in congratulating Hon. Atandi for coming up with this maiden Report. Having looked at this Report from Schedule One to Schedule Four, I am convinced that Hon. Atandi with his team have done us justice for the first time. Last year and the years before, we have had several challenges and especially, for us, representing the rural constituencies. Speaking on behalf of Chepalungu Constituency, a rural constituency where I come from, we have roads running to almost 68 kilometres, which were started by the then Deputy President and now, the President of the Republic of Kenya, that have run several years without proper financing. This is the first year that I am seeing a considerable budget being considered for Kyogong, Sigor and Chebunyo roads. In the previous years, the same roads have been allocated around Ksh40 to Ksh30 million. Ksh40 million cannot even do a kilometre. This year is a bit better. Still on roads, we have had several challenges. There is a bridge that was promised by the now Cabinet Secretary for Interior and National Administration when he was in the transport sector - the Kaptomburiet Bridge. But it ran for the entire two financial years without consideration. I am happy that this Budget is now considering that bridge. Which means, the residents of Nyangores will benefit from this Budget. That is why I will keep congratulating Hon. Atandi for having a broad-based budget that is considering constituencies that have always been under-considered. As I close on this issue of roads, many a times, when we visit the departments seeking for projects, they normally tell us that as new Members, we should wait for the ongoing projects to be completed before we start others. But I am happy because this Budget will consider another new road in my constituency. 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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"content": "On energy where I serve as a Committee member in this Parliament, I am happy because the Budget and Appropriations Committee accepted our request for Ksh5 billion that will serve all the constituencies within our country. I only urge the implementing departments that when that money comes, we should allocate money based on the need of each and every constituency. We cannot lie to each other. The urban constituencies can never be compared to the rural constituencies. In no way can constituencies like Chepalungu and constituencies from Bomet and Kericho counties can be compared to the constituencies in Nairobi. Nairobi has almost 90 per cent connectivity, whereas, in rural constituencies, we are still below 20 per cent. It is, therefore, upon the department and us Members to decide, and implore upon Rural Electrification and Renewable Energy Corporation (REREC), which is the implementing department, to consider using a well-connected and analysed database on who has low connectivity. The person with low connectivity should get a higher budget. In consideration of the education sector, I have an issue there. This is because Chepalungu Constituency, which is in Bomet County, has 188 primary schools and 97 secondary schools, a total of almost 300 schools. All of them are relying on the Ksh175 million budget for NG-CDF. If those constituencies are not considered under affirmative action through the Ministry of Education in construction of laboratories, rural constituencies will be left far much behind in terms of education. Whereas in the pathways, we are now gearing towards actualising the Competency-Based Education (CBE) programme. On issues touching on water, our constituencies have not benefited for a very long time. This financial year, a project dubbed Bomet-Mulot that is going all the way to Sigor, will benefit more. That is a project that has not been completed for several years. That is why I congratulate the Budget and Appropriations Committee led by Hon. Atandi. That this year, we feel that we are part of this country. We are part of Kenya and we are beginning to see equity. With those very few remarks, I support this Report. I still encourage all the departments that will implement this Budget, that when the money comes to their department, they ensure through oversight that, that money does what it is meant to do. Thank you so much. I support."
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