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    "id": 1459620,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1459620/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Busia County, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Catherine Omanyo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I am very happy with the Supplementary Appropriation Bill. The range of choices available therein have prioritised what matters. For the first time, if we stick to that, Kenya will live within its means for some time for the sake of development, our children in school and those children who live in Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASALs) and flood-prone areas. Children who live around such places hardly go to school but if we have a similar programme where we give children lunch in schools, they will not miss going to school just like any other child in Kenya. If everything is put in place, again we will reduce corruption and many of our school-going children especially those who come from poor families will attend school. The number of people living below poverty levels will reduce as well as the gap between the rich and the poor. This will be evident as the 10 per cent of people who have been controlling the economy of Kenya will not have it all as it has been. A lot will trickle down to the people at the grassroots and this means many will have access to basic needs. That is where we all start talking about belonging to a country that protects and takes care of its people. It is a good Bill which I support. I want to see no difference between a child from Siamahanga Village where I come from and a child in Nairobi. The migration between villages in the rural areas will also reduce if every county builds a factory. A lot of money has been getting lost into few people’s pockets but if that money goes into developing industries in every county, then the youth who are today up in arms saying that they need jobs, will get jobs. Our economy will start growing and our people will be proud and count themselves as belonging to this nation. Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker."
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