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"content": "I mentioned the CCF. Coffee has become a strategic cash crop. In fact, when went round to engage in public participation, in the areas of Nyanza, Rift valley and Western, most farmers are abandoning their traditional cash crops and they want to move into the coffee sector. As I said, the coffee sector is giving more returns and is also a foreign exchange earner. Foreign exchange is going to be important for our economy going forward. Therefore, most farmers are moving into coffee. The CCF is an investment which has been done by this Parliament in the past. It is in the wisdom of this Parliament again that we continue to fund CCF and we have allocated Ksh2 billion towards that."
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"content": "I also mentioned that most farmers in those regions are trying to move away from other cash crops. They are engaging in what the Budget Report calls crop diversification. In order to achieve that, we have allocated Ksh2 billion, to help farmers in those regions who want to move away from their traditional cash crops like maize into coffee. We want to give them support so that they can fully engage through our support. We need about 2.7 metric tonnes of coffee for export and for this market. Therefore, we want to urge more farmers to go into coffee farming. Livestock insurance is also an important sector that we believe we need to fund substantially. In this Budget, we have allocated Ksh200 million for livestock insurance."
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"content": "Hon. Temporary Speaker, on the area of education, capitation still remains one of the biggest items in this Budget. This Budget has allocated Ksh90 billion for school capitation - Junior Secondary Schools (JSS), secondary and primary education. You heard about the uproar that the National Treasury did not allocate resources for examination. In this Budget, we have allocated 5.9 billion for examinations. Examination is a process and it starts with procuring exam materials. It goes into logistics later on and lastly into payment of examiners. The total vote for all that programme is Ksh12 billion, but for the start, we have allocated Ksh5.9 billion so that this process goes on. In the course of time, this Parliament will appropriate the other resources to support it fully. We have resources for recruitment of 20,000 more JSS interns in this Budget at Ksh7.5 billion. In the area of health, we have appropriated resources for procurement of vaccines. As you know, vaccines are very important and this country must be self-reliant in that area. We appropriated Ksh4.6 billion for that. We are building a cancer center at Kisii Level 5 Referral Hospital that is going to cost Ksh1 billion from this Budget. We have Universal Health Coverage (UHC) workers that have been demonstrating across the country for the last one year. It is the determination of this House that those workers be converted into permanent and pensionable terms. In this Budget, we have allocated Ksh6.1 billion towards that."
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"content": "This will be only done after a thorough audit of the number of workers that exist because when these workers were hired, the number was 8,500. We have since established that some of them left the service while some counties have hired them into permanent and pensionable terms causing the numbers to come down substantially. The first thing we have said we are going to do about it, is that the Ministry of Health must first engage in thorough audit to be able to tell us how many of these workers are in their service before their contract is turned into permanent and pensionable terms."
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"content": "For a long time, this country is benefiting from rainfed agriculture. This has done so well especially in the recent past when we have been favoured by too much rainfall. However, 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": "this is not reliable all the time. We have allocated Ksh15 billion to support irrigation programmes across the country. We would like various parts of the country to engage in small time irrigation projects that can continue to help the economy even when we are suffering from lack of rainfall. In the area of industry, the County Aggregation Industrial Parks (CAIPS) which is a partnership between the national Government and the counties is a critical programme that is intended to help regions harness and develop products that they produce. In this Budget, we have continued to allocate more resources towards this programme; Ksh4.6 billion is allocated towards that so that those projects in the counties can be concluded for our people to benefit."
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"content": "There are many Kenyans who are still landless since the Government is not able to give them land to live in. In this Budget, we have allocated about Ksh4 billion towards the resettlement of landless Kenyans. In the area of the blue economy, the six counties in the Coast region and four along Lake Victoria have also benefited. Allocation of Ksh5 billion to help those fisher folks around the areas at Lake Victoria – that is Siaya, Homabay, Kisumu and Migori – and the other six counties in the Coast, namely, Kwale and Kilifi…"
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"speaker_name": "Budalangi, ODM",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Raphael Wanjala",
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"content": " Busia."
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"speaker_name": "Alego Usonga, ODM",
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"content": " Yes, Busia also, thank you, Mheshimiwa. This Ksh5 billion allocation will support blue economy projects along Lake Victoria and the Indian Ocean. We have allocated resources for the Transformative Affordable Housing programme, which aims to ensure that low-income Kenyans can afford decent housing. This is one of the major programmes of the Bottom-up Economic Transformation Agenda(BETA). This programme is successful, as you saw last week when the President visited Mukuru kwa Njenga to launch the programme. It was beautiful. We believe that this programme needs to continue. This House has allocated about Ksh95 billion towards that. As I conclude, I would like to say that we have a Broad-Based, inclusive Government. If you go through the Budget Estimates, you will see that we have distributed programmes across the country. There is no part of the country that has been left behind. Even when you look at the infrastructure from the North Eastern region, especially in Garissa and Mandera counties, we have at least a programme in those areas. This is the promise that the President gave, and we, as proponents of the Broad-Based Government, want to say that we are living up to that promise. This Budget is the first of many that will restore hope to Kenyans and ensure they feel part of this country. I urge Members of this House to study the Report and support it. The Report is huge. It has many other programs that I am unable to highlight here in this opportunity. Let Members support this Budget proposal, which is before us, so that in the end we will be able to have a more progressive country. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I thank you."
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"content": " It will be seconded by whom? I would like to ask the Leader of the Majority Party to second."
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