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    "content": "sanity that was injected in us, because we were temporarily insane to a point of killing ourselves. Parliament and Members of the Cabinet should celebrate when President Barack Obama comes to intervene. Even when Ocampo comes to intervene, we should not become captives of our ethnic regions or political parties. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, Dr. Anan is eminent. President Obama is our son because he is from a Kenyan gene; we are the only country in the world that set aside a whole day to celebrate when he was elected the President of the United States of America(USA); not even the USA itself did that. Recently, our President and our Prime Minister were among the first people to send congratulatory messages to President Obama when he won the Nobel Peace Prize. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I will now move to my two last points. First, I will deal with the Kazi Kwa Vijana Programme. The Treasury must come up with rules. We do not want a Treasury that complains. We do not want to have a Minister who complains that certain departments of the Government have mismanaged the Kazi KwaVijana Programme monies. That is rightly so; I know I belong to the Government that should be streamlining all the monies that is going to the ground, which has the potential of causing a milestone that will impact on household incomes of Kenyans. Therefore, it is important that the Treasury declines to release any amount of money unless the rules are very clear, because we do not want anybody to play politics with the Kazi Kwa Vijana Programme, and claim that Kshs1 billion has been expended unprocedurally. This is money that should make an impact and bring about a big difference. In the economy streamlining projects, the Treasury made major achievements. For those achievements, we appreciate the rules on the ground. We appreciate that there is also room for improvement, so that ownership on the ground is felt very well. The criteria of allocation of all the economic streamlining projects should be made very firm, so that we do not have a few constituencies going to camp at the Deputy Prime Ministers’ Offices. I know that there are MPs who go there to ask why their areas were left out in this or that. The rules must be very clear, elaborate and firm. We do not want the Treasury to become benevolent when we are devolving funds. We want a Treasury that continues to be celebrated, as we are doing, under the Minister, who continues to be an icon of devolution of resources and improvement of governance. Today coincides with a day which is historic. The day that the new Draft Constitution has been launched is the same day that the Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister for Finance has brought the Appropriations Bill here. That is a good coincidence, because we are focusing on the days ahead. In conclusion, the USA has the New York Stock Exchange. However, perhaps, the most impacting trading programme in USA is the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation System (NASDAQ), the over the counter trading system. Many businesses in Kenya are collapsing because they are unable to have a regulation that can invite other people to expand their skills and knowledge that is required for such businesses. We have seen big families with very good businesses. However, those businesses come down when the founder has passed on, or when the offspring’s of the founder do not agree. To date, we have many cases in court of children fighting over ownership of businesses, even when their parents are alive. It is important that the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance--- I am privy to the fact that we need to gazette rules for over the counter trading so that businesses in the rural areas and in towns can"
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