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    "id": 1456654,
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    "speaker_name": "Kabondo Kasipul, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Eve Obara",
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    "content": "oversight the Executive. We are not part of the Executive. We are all being called ‘MPigs’. I think you have seen that. Our children on the streets have been telling us that we are wrong. It is a lesson to all of us. Hon. Temporary Speaker, we probably still thought that those were young children forgetting that we had taken them to the best schools. They now have skills, but with no jobs. They have talked to us, but we probably did not listen to them. I think we have all said that. As we now discuss the Supplementary Estimates, let us remember the children that are still in hospital. Can our Government have the compassion and the empathy to clear the bills of those who are still in hospital? Can the Government find a way to compensate the parents of those who died through the bullet wounds by the police? I know that we cannot replace life, but let them be compensated. The Government can reach out to them and publicly apologise. This is also a lesson to the leaders to show humility as we go about our business. How come we are now not running around with all those bodyguards and big cars with sirens? It is doable. We have learnt a lesson. Going back to the Supplementary Budget, I have noted that our biggest problem is not revenue. Our biggest problem is expenditure. How do we spend the money? We have now been able to go back to that same Budget and reduce it. I know that many areas have been affected, but if we manage the resources that come to our hands as a country, I think we can make a big difference. As a rule of thumb, can we come up with a policy that all old projects must be completed before we come up with new ones? This has been a problem. We have so many pending bills and delayed projects because we start new projects and forget the old ones. I am happy that we have considered the Junior Secondary Schools (JSS). I have seen the money. There is confirmation that what we had promised has come to fruition because it is in the Budget. There has been a lot of pressure on us in our areas because of that matter. I sit in the Departmental Committee on Education and Research, and I have seen that the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) for the teachers has been removed. I hope they will understand the circumstances under which this was removed. Since they were signed, the effective date is not going to change and so they will eventually get their money in arrears. Hon. Temporary Speaker, there is an issue of transformers that are going to be distributed across the country. I hope there will be equity when this will be undertaken. In my own area, Kabondo Kasipul, almost 50 per cent of the transformers that were distributed between 2013 and 2017 are not working, and they have not been replaced. Each time they are replaced, they still do not function because we seem to have bought sub-standard transformers. This should be looked into with equity. On the School Feeding Programme, I am happy that this has been retained and that children in the Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASALs) and other included areas are going to get food in schools. I have also seen that there is provision for milk coolers for farmers. We have dairy farmers across the country and I hope that those coolers will get to all the constituencies. I hope that at the time they will be distributed, they will get to other constituencies or counties, like my county which borders Nyamira. I hope we are going to get a milk coolant because we have dairy farmers in the region."
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