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    "id": 1451136,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Embakasi South, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Julius Mawathe",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this important Motion on the Report of the Budget and Appropriations Committee on its consideration of the Supplementary Estimates for the Financial Year 2024/2025. We live in very hard and challenging economic times, and as a country, we must learn to live within our means. I am glad that the Budget and Appropriations Committee has reduced the Budget to what is affordable without increasing taxes for Kenyans. We are glad that the Budget and Appropriations Committee has included funds for the absorption and employment of the JSS teachers countrywide. One of the things that is lacking in this Budget are the funds for the School Feeding Programme meant for kids in the slum areas. We have noticed that there are funds for the School Feeding Programme in ASAL areas but I can assure you most of the students and parents in the slum areas are actually poorer than the people living in the ASAL areas. We urge the Budget and Appropriations Committee to include the School Feeding Programme for slum areas in the next Budget. There is need to allocate funds for additional classes in schools in Nairobi County. The reason is that when people graduate from school, they come to look for employment, get married and have their kids in Nairobi. The population of Nairobi has grown from what it was about seven to eight years ago at 2.5 million people to about 5.5 million as per the last election. I am sure the number will rise to about seven million people yet the size of land is not growing and the demand for schools is increasing every year. I support."
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