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    "content": "Indeed, conscious of the fact that significant financial resources will be deployed towards the construction of at least 12,500 new classrooms and related school facilities, in that regard, the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Transport, Infrastructure, Housing and Urban Development have been instructed that by 1st December, 2020 to issue a new set of building guidelines for school infrastructure that allows the use of appropriate and cost effective building technologies suited to the varied geographies of our nation. The intervention of these guidelines will achieve transparent and standardised bills of quantity that will guarantee value for taxpayers’ money. For every shilling that we put into school infrastructure, we must seek to obtain more classes built to acceptable standards. Fellow Kenyans, Hon. Members and Hon. Speakers, on the state of our economic development, at Article 132, read with Article 10 of our Constitution, I am required to report to Parliament on a wide array of economic, social and relational achievements. I call the sum total of all these achievements our economic development. Hon. Members, economic development is not about intentions and activities; it is about results. It not about the volume of what we did; it is about the impact of what we achieved. In other words, economic development is the measure of the tangible positive transformation of the wellbeing and quality of life of our people. During this year’s reporting, I will focus on four areas of primary thrust, and situate the four areas within the broad framework of the Big Four. I must mention from the outset that the Big Four is not a project as many may think. The “Big Four” is an economic development strategy or framework, which I have used to organize Government delivery and to answer the question ‘Why’ in terms of the selection of the priority areas we are working on. The philosophy of the Big Four is anchored in four intentions which we have pursued relentlessly this year, despite the problem of COVID-19. The first one is liberating our urban poor from the poverty of dignity caused by poor housing and inadequate services. The second is transitioning our young people from being ‘earners of wages’ to ‘owners of capital’. The third is building a holistic base of human capital that is food secure and health assured. The fourth is jump-starting the shift from being a country of net consumption to one of production. This has been our “why” for the Big Four during this difficult year. Let me begin my report to you by discussing the ‘poverty of dignity’ visited upon our urban poor. Indeed, it is a shame that almost 60 years after independence, a majority of our urban dwellers live in a dignity poor environment. Their sanitary conditions are inhumane, and their habitations are deplorable. Our intention is to reverse this, and the Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS) is a pilot project that has been successful in rolling back the frontiers of this urban indignity."
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