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    "id": 1032053,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Hargura",
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    "content": "implement that. It requires a lot of resources and the Government must be ready to channel them to the counties, to make sure that the UHC coverage becomes a reality. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, in the education sector, we have been told that the Competency Based Curriculum (CBC) has already been fully rolled out. However, I have been wondering how we are taking our education system. Some of us went through the 7- 4-2-3 system. The 8-4-4 system came and now we are in the CBC System. Our neighbors like Tanzania and Uganda are still in the old system. We have to look at how we are taking our education system. Sometimes we might disconnect ourselves from the rest of the world; that a Kenyan trained professional will only be limited to working in Kenya because of the kind of system we are going through. Let us see what we are doing with our youth. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I commend the President on the issue of full transition from primary to secondary where he said that in the next 24 months, 12,500 classrooms need to be constructed. I hope those who have that responsibility like the MPs who handle the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) are prepared to make sure that those structures are in place so that this becomes a reality to our youth. On the state of the economy, the President mentioned the Big Four Agenda and the strategies, which are there. These are very good ideas. I hope that we will implement them especially the issue of liberating the urban poor in terms of housing. I hope we will be constructing enough housing. The 500,000 public housing has not been achieved. It is only in Nairobi where a few have been constructed. It is better that we put these things into practice. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, on the issue of youth transition from wage earners to owners of capital, the boda boda has been hailed as one of the sectors, which generate a lot of revenue of about Kshs357 billion in a year which is more than what we give to the counties. However, they need to be organized since they are everywhere. Let the Government at least provide that leadership to make sure they are organized by both the county and national governments. This is so that we make sure our youth harness this capital which they have. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for our country to move from a net consumer to a net producer, infrastructure is very important as the President has said. We need to invest in that. This is because you can only move from the producer to the consumer through a proper infrastructure, be it road or rail. It has to be in place. That is a focus, which the President has shown and we need to support him. Lastly, on this issue of Building Bridges Initiative (BBI), it has been hailed that it is a good idea. We support it. That is what we have been saying as Kenyans. I like what the President said that the issues raised by various stakeholders which need to be discussed and addressed by consensus. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, one of those issues is the issue of revenue. We have had a protracted debate in this House for about two months agreeing on the revenue formula. However, some of us who have been trying to make sure that, that formula does not pass the way it was being proposed by the Committee on Finance and Budget feel"
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