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    "content": "is no way we can talk about free primary and secondary education, and spending more money per child, yet we do not have the capacity to teach these children. So, I thought that the Minister would have considered allocating enough money for the teachers’ salaries. The amount outstanding of 60 per cent that was agreed should have been allocated so that we clear this and also motivate them to be able to produce in terms of what they are engaged to do; that is, teaching our children. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the other area which I looked at is infrastructure. There is a lot of money that has been allocated for roads in some areas while in other areas, there is no money which is spent. I have looked at some of the projects that are being done. I had an opportunity to visit a road that traverses from Isiolo up to Moyale. The first quarter of the road which is going to take about Kshs6 billion to Kshs7 billion is about 140 kilometres. But in some areas where we need less than even Kshs1 billion, the Government is not willing to spend money on those roads. For example, there is a road from Kisumu to Kakamega and Webuye. We do not need that kind of money for that road, but in terms of the economy, there are a lot of activities that generate food and livelihood for the people in that area and even the whole country. But there is no money that has been budgeted for that side of the country. So, I would have liked to see even distribution of money that is being spent across the country. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the other thing that I expect also is harmonization of pay for public servants. This has been outstanding for a very long time. I hope that later on maybe in the course of time, the Government will come up with a document showing how we can harmonize pay for public servants. This is because we have been saying that the people who are manning the public sector have gone to the same universities and maybe, attained same qualifications. But you will find that there is a lot of unevenness in the way they are rewarded or paid. So, that is an aspect where I would like maybe, the Government to consider coming up with a policy paper, so that this Parliament can pass it and everybody knows what they are supposed to be earning. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I was also imagining that this time round, the water sector would be handled the same way that we are trying to do with the roads and rural electrification funds. It is not very clear how the money that is allocated for water in the districts and constituencies is spent, because it is still being held by one single person. It is very difficult for us to account for this. So, I also hope that as we go along, the water sector will be structured on the same lines that we are dealing with the roads money and rural electrification funds. We have had heavy rains. Recently, I heard somebody from Kenya Power and Lighting Company saying that we have got excess water and will not have problems of power. But you know what happens in this country. You may have rains now but within a very short time, we will have drought. I think we must have long-term measures in place to be able to harness this water for long-term generation of power. Right now, we are spending a lot of money trying to invest in geothermal power, but the amount of water that we are losing on run-off when it rains heavily is a lot. We are boasting that power charges will go down and then within a short time, the same goes back even higher than what it should be. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, with those few remarks, I beg to support."
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