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    "speaker_name": "Narok County, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Rebecca Tonkei",
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    "content": " Thank you for giving me this opportunity to support the Supplementary Budget I. I support this Budget. Many things go into it. I thank the Budget and Appropriations Committee’s Chairman for making a very good presentation on the Supplementary Budget. Some of us are very excited about the Ksh650 billion that goes to the education sector. It is encouraging that every student in JSS will get Ksh10,000 per year because many parents cannot afford to pay for their children to be in school. There is also the 46,000 interns employed on contract for the last one-and-a-half years. Many interns, especially all over the country, have been talking about when their confirmation is going to be. I thank the Budget and Appropriations Committee for agreeing with the Departmental Committee on Education and Research to have the 46,000 intern teachers, in JSS and some in primary schools, confirmed. We know there are 4,000 intern teachers in primary schools and another 42,000 in JSS. There is secondary schools’ infrastructure. We all know that we struggle much to get classrooms for our students. They are overcrowded. Having this allocation in the Budget is also a very good thing by the Budget and Appropriations Committee. The school feeding programme where we have a Ksh3 billion allocation is another encouraging thing. It is very good and it has been captured. We thank God for that. Budget and Appropriations Committee, thank you. The Kenya Kwanza Government is talking about a bottom-up economic approach. Farmers are going to get subsidised fertilisers. Therefore, we are going to get a bumper harvest for our people. We have an increase in salaries for police. Most of us, even Members of Parliament, know that our security officers serve us a lot. I was privileged to have been married to a gentleman who was an inspector of police, the late Inspector Joshua Tonkei. Some of us know how much these people earn. The peanut salaries policemen earn is heart breaking. It is good when we get them some increment. These people do a lot. They protect us while we are sleeping. They are on our borders protecting the country. They go through a lot of pressure and stress while their families cannot even afford to put food on the table, let alone their children going to school. This is encouraging. Coming from the background of being married to a policeman, I support this Budget for that. There are cooling systems. I was privileged when the President visited my county and he promised to give me 30 cooling systems. These will go to all women so that they afford to take their milk for preservation. There is an increase of money to the Kenya Cooperative Creameries The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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