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    "content": "that the constituencies are becoming the focal point of development. It is becoming the unit of development and everybody in this country appreciates that. The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance took into depth at all Government programmes and holistically addressed issues that affect the communities of this country. He addressed issues of health, education, food security, women, youth, the elderly and everybody across the board. That is why I said that the Budget has a wider ownership of the people of this country. I was impressed by the Deputy prime Minister and Minister for Finance because he was able to come up with an innovative way. He was thinking outside the box. He went out of the traditional way of addressing issues to an extent of addressing important innovations and opening up programmes which can create employment for our youth and women. He also opened up programmes which for many years had been neglected. For example, he came up with the centers for excellence where every constituency will now have a school that will be equipped with computers. It will have internet connectivity and teachers who will dialogue and network with people around the country and outside the country. That is a very key and important way of addressing issues that empower our children while they are in schools. The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance also came up with excellent programs dealing with health facilities. He allocated Kshs20 million to each constituency so that we can deal with health issues in this country. This was excellent. He also allocated funds for the recruitment of teachers and nurses at the constituency level. We urge him to critically look at the implementation of these programmes. It is important for us to look at the implementation of these programs. They are two issues here that are different; giving with one hand and the other issue is making sure that a project is implemented. This is crucial in this innovation that the Deputy prime Minister and Minister for Finance has brought on board. I also want to thank the Deputy prime Minister and Minister for Finance for allocating adequate resources to various Ministries, in particular in terms of addressing issues that affect the poor people. I want to talk about the road sector. The road sector has been allocated adequate funding. However, there are still some regions which for many years have been marginalized. They were not in the mainstream of development of this country. In the same traditional way of addressing issues, the Minister has not looked at ways of opening up some regions that were closed. For instance, the North Eastern Province does not have a single kilometer of tarmac road. I would request him to consider, in his next Budget, allocating some money to the roads in that region. With regard to the issues of Women Enterprise Development Fund and the Youth Enterprise Development Fund, these funds had very good intentions because they were addressing the critical mass of this country. The Women Enterprise Development Fund was supposed to uplift the marginalized, vulnerable women, housewives and single women and those who are taking care of orphaned children. However, that is not what is happening. We want the Audit Department of the Ministry of Finance to critically look at the issues of finances with regard to the Women Enterprise Development Fund and the Youth Enterprise Development Fund which are under the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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