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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, we have allocated this Ministry Kshs2 billion out of the Kshs14 billion it requested for. This is the case and yet we expect the Ministry of Industrialization to move this country forward to meet the visions and goals of Vision 2030. We must be serious here. However, we have Kshs2.4 billion and the Ministry is hard-pressed to come up with programmes that will enable it meet its goals. There is the stimulus package of Kshs735 million for the Jua Kali sheds and training. Each of the 210 constituencies will be allocated Kshs2.8 million for the Jua Kali sheds and Kshs1 million for equipment. We need the Ministry of Industrialization to tell us how this will be achieved. Who will co-ordinate this exercise? How will it be implemented? Will this exercise be carried out by the Ministry of Industrialization or the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF)? Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, one of the challenges we clearly found the Ministry faces is inadequate budgetary allocation. Energy is a major issue that we have to address. The current supply of energy is 10,000 megawatts compared to South Africa’s 40,000 megawatts. Water supply is another major constraint to industrialization. Human resource is another constraint caused by brain drain. The observation of the Committee is that this country is not moving forward in terms of industrialization and the Ministry has been unable to implement many of its laid down plans. I think the Ministry will be hard hit now that it is has been allocated one- seventh of the budget it requested for. We feel for it. With due respect, the Numerical Machine Complex is a dormant and archaic institution which we inherited from the past governments. We should not pump in more money to it. We would like the Minister for Industrialization to tell us what they have realised from the Numerical Machine Complex. How can it justify more money being pumped into it? We also do not think that the Kenya Industrial Research and Development Institute (KIRDI) has played any role in the promotion of industrial research and development of technological transfer. We would like to know why we have allocated Kshs290 million to the KIRDI and Kshs50 million to the Numerical Machine Complex. Could they not be put together? Why is the Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS) being allocated Kshs50 million every year under the Ministry’s development budget? We also need a justification for the increased net allocation from Kshs474 million to Kshs586 million to domestic travel. So, what is this domestic travel? Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I have said earlier on that this country is not moving forward and we do not know where we are headed to. The Committee recommends that the Ministry of Finance should have made adequate budgetary provision to this Ministry, if it has to implement the programmes and activities that are aimed at stimulating industrial growth. Without that, there is absolutely no reason to allocate the Ministry one-seventh of the amount it had requested for. The Committee also recommends increase in power supply and differential power tariffs for industrial use. Basically, we should make industrialization cheaper. We have had many people come here and tell us that our power is the most expensive in the area. I have said earlier on that it is a waste of time having the KIRDI the way it is. However, we do not want to kill it by throwing the baby with the bath water. We propose that the KIRDI should be placed under a university so that it can flourish with the"
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