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    "speaker_name": "Kibra, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Orero",
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    "content": "First of all, I want to thank the people of Kibra for having confidence in me and electing me overwhelmingly. They gave me their votes. They put their aspirations, trust and faith in me to come to this august House to articulate their issues. I would like to let those who are here with us to know that I represent the biggest slum not only in this country but also almost in the world. Looking at our Standing Orders, I see that you have overwhelming powers. You have the power to rule on any issue that is not provided for in the Constitution and the Standing Orders. I want you to declare today that Kibra should be a hardship area. When you give food relief, you start with Kibra. I have residents who live not only on a Dollar a day but also others who cannot afford all the meals in a day. I know that some of my colleagues have never gone to slums. One day, I will take you to see how they look like. Some of you have not seen poverty. I wish the Speaker can take this matter very seriously. When His Excellency the President pronounced that he would create a hustlers’ fund, I thought the only constituency he had in mind was Kibra. That is why I stand here today. It touched my heart because my people will be taken care of this time round. Kibra is a slum. We lack healthcare facilities that we are talking about. If you cannot have three meals in a day, it means that the immunity level of your body goes down. Within no time, you are susceptible to diseases and your lives are normally shortened. So, we need to hasten this idea of healthcare because it will benefit my people more than others. I really support the President’s Speech because it talks about healthcare. When we speak for the first time, we are told that it is our maiden speech. I listened to the President. There is something he said in his shortest paragraph in his short speech, which I think is paragraph 37. He said that he had news which are not good because our financial status is bad. When you look at his Speech in almost all the paragraphs, we are just talking about the state of the economy in this country. When the Governor of Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) came to talk to us, he said that the debts that we service in this country are about Ksh8.5 trillion. He projected that within the next one financial year, it might move to Ksh9.2 trillion. The President said that 65 per cent of our revenue pays our debts. We must look for ways and means of reducing our debts. We will have Ksh300 billion Budget cuts. I want to concur with one of our Members who said that the first priority should be to look at each State Department and see how much was not spent. That is called the absorption rate. Which State Department did not absorb its budgetary provision in the last financial year? I have realised that some State Departments only absorb 60 per cent of their budget. Instead of having budget cuts across the board, we should look at the absorption rate of the State Departments and from there we can raise Ksh300 billion. Our recurrent expenditure is more than our revenue. We were told that within the next three years, we will have more revenue than the recurrent expenditure. This requires a lot of strict measures. I urge the technocrats who are concerned to take this matter very seriously. I wish to talk about education. I am an educationist. That is why I am called Mwalimu . The President’s Speech should have put a lot of emphasis on education. Education equalises people, whether you are poor or rich. The education system in our country is at a balance. I have seen that we have a Committee that will look at reforms which are required in the education sector. I do not think that it is a taskforce. I believe those reforms will not affect the real stakeholders in the education system. The major stakeholders are the teachers, parents and students. Most of the parents have been talking about the burden in this Competency-Based 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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