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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Narok West, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gabriel Tongoyo",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to add my voice to this very important debate. From the very onset, I want to appreciate and commend the Budget and Appropriations Committee, led by their very able Chairman, for burning the midnight oil to have this Report ready. In fact, I was trying to call the Chairman last night, and he told me that he went to bed around 4.00 a.m. I also want to commend all the departmental committee chairpersons who participated in making this possible. It is good to appreciate that we are doing these Supplementary Estimates during a very hard moment because it is primarily cuts that have been occasioned by the stepping down or suspension of the Finance Bill, 2024. This has caused a lot of cuts across all sectors, and we have no option but to accept it as it is. Having said that, I want to appreciate the members of the Budget and Appropriations Committee because they have really tried to save and preserve the very critical and important programmes that are beneficial to Kenyans. I would just like to mention a few programmes. In the Supplementary Estimates, there is provision of money to absorb the JSS teachers. This is a positive step forward. A majority of our youth are unemployed and absorbing JSS teachers will be in fulfilment of the promise that the Kenya Kwanza Government made. In the same Budget, there is an increment for our police officers, prisons wardens and officers across the security sector. We must appreciate the Maraga Taskforce Report that recommended a 40 per cent increase of salaries to our police officers, and the President committed to it. In this Budget, a sum of money to the tune of Ksh3.5 billion has been provided to enable our police officers to get their salary increment starting this month, as promised by the President. We are still going to look at the other sectors, such as their welfare and the housing program. Our police officers’ welfare will get better. 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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